rhyme

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable

   hat and cat rhyme

2. 2
   noun

   Rhyming verse (poetic form)

   Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.

3. 3
   noun

   A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.

   Tennyson’s rhymes

4. 4
   noun

   A word that rhymes with another.

   Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.

5. 5
   noun

   Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.

   The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.

6. 6
   noun

   An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.

   I heard Drake's new rhyme last night.

7. 7
   noun

   A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.

   His rhymes are all weak.

8. 8
   verb

   To compose or treat in verse; versify.

   Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?

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-Euro…