rhythm

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A regular pattern of strong and weak sounds or beats in music or speech.

   Dance to the rhythm of the music.

2. 2
   noun

   A regular, repeated pattern of events or movements.

   Once you get the rhythm of it, the job becomes easy.

First coined in 1557, from Latin rhythmus, from Ancient Greek ῥυθμός (rhuthmós, “any measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”), from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, run, stream, gush”).

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