rhyme
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”), from Anglo-Norman rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”) (modern French rime); further etymology uncertain, possibly either:
* from Latin rhythmus (“rhythm”), from Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós, “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow; a stream”); or
* borrowed from Frankish *rīm (“number, order, sequence, series, row of identical things”) (whence Old English rīm (“number, enumeration, series”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to arrange; to count”) and *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix; to slot”).
Cognates
* Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”)
* Dutch rijm (“rhyme”)
* Middle Low German rīm (“rhyme”)
* Old Frisian rīm (“number, amount, tale”)
* Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”) (modern German Reim (“rhyme”))
* Old Irish rīm (“number”)
* Old Norse rím (“calculation, calendar”) (Icelandic rím (“rhyme”), Norwegian rim (“rhyme”), Swedish rim (“rhyme”))
* Welsh rhif (“number”)
Inflected forms:
form: rhymes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rime
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: rhime
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: rhymes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rhyming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rhymed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rhymed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rime
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: rhime
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Rhyming verse (poetic form)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.
Thou, thou, Lyſander, thou haſt giuen her rimes, / And interchang'd loue tokens vvith my childe: […]
VVhen in the Chronicle of vvaſted time, / I ſee diſcriptions of the faireſt vvights, / And beautie making beautifull old rime, / In praiſe of Ladies dead, and louely Knights, […]
I thought, if I could dravv my paines, / Through Rimes vexation, I ſhould them allay, / Griefe brought to numbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe.
gloss: A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Tennyson’s rhymes
gloss: A word that rhymes with another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.
Rap makes use of rhymes such as “money … honey” and “nope … dope”.
gloss: A word that rhymes with another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
gloss: Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
[M]ary I cannot ſhevv it in rime, I haue tried, I can finde out no rime to Ladie, but babie, an innocent rime: for ſcorne, horne, a hard rime: for ſchoole foole, a babling rime: very ominous endings, no, I vvas not borne vnder a riming plannet, nor i cannot vvooe in feſtiuall termes: […]
Sometimes a man knovvs a place determinate, vvithin the compaſſe vvhereof he is to ſeek: […] as a man ſhould run over the Alphabet, to ſtart a rime.
[S]hould not all the world delight to honour this unfortunate and loyal follower of the Muses? May Apollo send him rimes hitherto undreamed of; […]
gloss: The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: I heard Drake's new rhyme last night.
gloss: A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: His rhymes are all weak.
gloss: Number.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To compose or treat in verse; versify.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?
How Panurge and the rest rim'd with Poetick Fury [chapter title]
There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, / Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.
“He was aye rimin’,” said Miss Newbigging, “about this bonny countryside and the dacent folk that bode in it.”
gloss: To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Now she's tainted by the syringe
Try to rhyme a word with orange
gloss: Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Creation rhymes with integration and station.
India and windier rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
gloss: To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
pos: verb
tags: reciprocal
examples: Mug and rug rhyme.
gloss: To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
usually
examples: I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.
gloss: To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: In addition, the look rhymes with but inverts the meaning of the first silent look he gets instead of words when he asks Lucien in the photo shop if he remembers him, and Lucien shrugs his shoulders in denial.
gloss: To number; count; reckon.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Derived words: berhyme
broken rhyme
consonant rhyme
counting rhyme
eye rhyme
female rhyme
feminine rhyme
forced rhyme
head rhyme
he who said the rhyme did the crime
historic rhyme
holorhyme
imperfect rhyme
interrhyme
male rhyme
masculine rhyme
mind rhyme
misrhyme
monorhyme
nursery rhyme
oblique rhyme
outrhyme
quasi-rhyme
refractory rhyme
rhymability
rhymable
rhyme book
rhyme dictionary
rhymefest
rhymeless
rhymelet
rhyme letter
rhymelike
rhymemaker
rhymemaking
rhyme nor reason
rhyme or reason
rhymeprose
rhymer
rhyme royal
rhymery
rhyme scheme
rhymester
rhyme-tag
rhymewise
rhymey
rhymic
rhymical
rhymist
riding rhyme
sight rhyme
sprung rhyme
stave rhyme
syllabic rhyme
tail rhyme
unrhyme
visual rhyme
vowel rhyme
rhyme off
rhyme out
rhymes-with-rich
rhyme up
rhyming slang
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قَصِيدَة
roman: qaṣīda
lang: Arabic
word: أُسْجُوعَة
roman: ʔusjūʕa
lang: Belarusian
word: верш
roman: vjerš
lang: Bulgarian
word: стих
roman: stih
lang: Bulgarian
word: стихотворе́ние
roman: stihotvorénie
lang: Bulgarian
word: сти́хче
roman: stíhče
lang: Catalan
word: rima
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 韻文 /韵文
roman: yùnwén
lang: Czech
word: (dětská) říkanka
lang: Czech
word: rýmovačka
lang: Dutch
word: rijm
lang: Dutch
word: rijmpje
lang: Dutch
word: vers
lang: Dutch
word: versje
lang: Finnish
word: riimi
lang: French
word: strophe
lang: French
word: vers
lang: Galician
word: rima
lang: German
word: Reim
lang: Greek
word: ομοιοκαταληξία
roman: omoiokatalixía
lang: Hebrew
word: חֲרִיזָה
roman: kharizá
lang: Icelandic
word: rím
lang: Japanese
word: 詩
roman: uta
lang: Khmer
word: កាព្យ
roman: kaap
lang: Lao
word: ໂຄງ
roman: khōng
lang: Malay
word: rima
lang: Dari
word: قَافِیَه
roman: qāfiya
lang: Iranian Persian
word: قافِیِه
roman: ġâfiye
lang: Portuguese
word: poesia
lang: Romanian
word: vers
lang: Romanian
word: rimă
lang: Russian
word: стихотворе́ние
roman: stixotvorénije
lang: Russian
word: стих
roman: stix
lang: Swahili
word: kina
lang: Swedish
word: rim
lang: Tajik
word: қофия
roman: qofiya
lang: Thai
word: กลอน
roman: glɔɔn
lang: Thai
word: กาพย์
roman: gàap
lang: Turkish
word: kafiye
lang: Turkish
word: uyak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قافیه
roman: kafiye
lang: Ukrainian
word: вірш
roman: virš
lang: Urdu
word: قافِیَہ
roman: qāfiya
lang: Yiddish
word: גראַם
roman: gram
lang: Albanian
word: rimë
lang: Albanian
word: gjasërame
lang: Arabic
word: قَافِيَة
roman: qāfiya
lang: Armenian
word: հանգ
roman: hang
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qafiyə
lang: Belarusian
word: ры́фма
roman: rýfma
lang: Bulgarian
word: ри́ма
roman: ríma
lang: Burmese
word: ကာရန်
roman: karan
lang: Catalan
word: rima
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 韻 /韵
roman: yùn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 韻腳 /韵脚
roman: yùnjiǎo
lang: Czech
word: rým
lang: Danish
word: rim
lang: Dutch
word: rijmwoord
lang: Dutch
word: rijm
lang: Estonian
word: riim
lang: Finnish
word: riimi
lang: French
word: rime
lang: Galician
word: rima
lang: Georgian
word: რითმა
roman: ritma
lang: German
word: Reim
lang: Greek
word: ομοιοκαταληξία
roman: omoiokatalixía
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὁμοιοκαταληξία
roman: homoiokatalēxía
lang: Hebrew
word: חָרוּז
roman: kharúz
lang: Hindi
word: तुक
roman: tuk
lang: Hungarian
word: rím
lang: Icelandic
word: rím
lang: Italian
word: rima
lang: Japanese
word: 韻
roman: in
lang: Kazakh
word: ұйқас
roman: ūiqas
lang: Khmer
word: ឃ្លោង
roman: khloong
lang: Khmer
word: ជួន
roman: cuən
lang: Korean
word: 운
roman: un
lang: Kyrgyz
word: уйкаштык
roman: uykaştık
lang: Lao
word: ສຳຜັດ
roman: sam phat
lang: Latvian
word: atskaņa
lang: Lithuanian
word: rimas
lang: Macedonian
word: рима
roman: rima
lang: Malay
word: rima
lang: Māori
word: huarite
lang: Māori
word: kupu huarite
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: rim
lang: Dari
word: قَافِیَه
roman: qāfiya
lang: Iranian Persian
word: قافِیِه
roman: ġâfiye
lang: Polish
word: rym
lang: Portuguese
word: rima
lang: Romanian
word: rimă
lang: Russian
word: ри́фма
roman: rífma
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: слик
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: срок
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: рима
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: slik
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: srok
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rima
lang: Slovak
word: rým
lang: Slovene
word: rima
lang: Spanish
word: rima
lang: Swahili
word: kina
lang: Swedish
word: rim
lang: Tajik
word: қофия
roman: qofiya
lang: Tamil
word: எதுகை
roman: etukai
lang: Tamil
word: ஒத்திசை
roman: otticai
lang: Thai
word: สัมผัส
roman: sǎm-pàt
lang: Turkish
word: kafiye
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قافیه
roman: kafiye
lang: Ukrainian
word: ри́ма
roman: rýma
lang: Urdu
word: قافِیَہ
roman: qāfiya
lang: Uzbek
word: qofiya
lang: Vietnamese
word: vần
lang: Catalan
word: rimar
lang: Czech
word: rýmovat
lang: Dutch
word: rijmen
lang: Esperanto
word: rimi
lang: Finnish
word: riimitellä
lang: French
word: faire rimer
lang: Galician
word: rimar
lang: German
word: reimen
lang: Greek
word: ομοιοκαταληκτώ
roman: omoiokataliktó
lang: Italian
word: fare rima
lang: Japanese
word: 韻を踏む
roman: in o fumu
lang: Polish
word: rymować
lang: Portuguese
word: rimar
lang: Russian
word: рифмова́ть
roman: rifmovátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: rimar
lang: Swedish
word: rimma
lang: Ukrainian
word: римува́ти
roman: rymuváty
lang: Yiddish
word: גראַמען
roman: gramen
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qafiyələndirmək
lang: Bulgarian
word: римувам
roman: rimuvam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 壓韻 /压韵
roman: yāyùn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 押韻 /押韵
roman: yāyùn
lang: Czech
word: rýmovat se
lang: Danish
word: rime
lang: Finnish
word: rimmata
lang: French
word: rimer
lang: German
word: sich reimen (mit)
lang: Hungarian
word: rímel
lang: Italian
word: mettere in rima
lang: Japanese
word: 押韻する
roman: ōin suru
lang: Norwegian
word: rime
lang: Romanian
word: rima
lang: Russian
word: рифмова́ться
roman: rifmovátʹsja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: slikovati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: srokovati
lang: Slovene
word: rimati se
lang: Ukrainian
word: римува́тися
roman: rymuvátysja
lang: Welsh
word: odli
lang: Dutch
word: (op elkaar) rijmen
lang: German
word: sich reimen