rhyme | |
1. n. Rhyming verse (poetic form) | |
Many editors say they don't want stories written in rhyme. | |
2. n. A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse. | |
Tennyson’s rhymes | |
3. n. A word that rhymes with another. | |
Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like "sól ... sunnan". | |
Rap makes use of rhymes such as "money ... honey" and "nope ... dope". | |
4. n. (in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to th | |
"Awake" is a rhyme for "lake". | |
5. n. Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words. | |
The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme. | |
6. n. (linguistics) rime | |
7. n. (obsolete) Number. | |
8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To number; count; reckon. | |
9. v. To compose or treat in verse; versify. | |
10. v. (transitive, followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | |
"Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station". | |
11. v. (reciprocal) Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. | |
"Mug" and "rug" rhyme. | |
"India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To put words together so that they rhyme. | |
I rewrote it to make it rhyme. | |