rhyme

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To have the same ending sound as another word.

   'Hat' and 'cat' rhyme.

2. 2
   noun

   A word that ends with the same sound as another word.

   Can you find a rhyme for 'orange'?

3. 3
   noun

   A short poem or song, especially for children, with words that rhyme.

   The children sang a nursery rhyme.

Common collocations

• initial rhyme Adjective + noun
• masculine rhyme Adjective + noun

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…

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