rhyme

CEFRB1

/ɹaɪm/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A matching sound at the ends of words or lines.

  2. 02

    verb

    To have or use matching sounds at the ends of words.

Examples

  • Rhyme and meter form the essential rules of Chinese poetry.

  • The poem's rhyme scheme is highly complex.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Also pronounced

  • [ɹɑe̯m]
  • /ɹɑem/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. A word that rhymes with another.

  3. Rhyming verse (poetic form)

More examples

In context

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

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

  • Tennyson’s rhymes

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Origin

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-European *srew- (“to flow; a stream”); or * borrowed from Frankish *rīm (“number, order, sequence, seri...