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rhyme¹
- /ɹaɪm/ Canada, US, UK
- /ɹɑem/ Australia
- [ɹɑe̯m] New Zealand
Sounds like rime · Rhymes with -aɪm
Where it comes from
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, series, row of identical things”) (whence Old English rīm (“number, enumeration, series”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey- (“to arrange; to count”) and *h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix; to slot”).
Cognates
* Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”)
* Dutch rijm (“rhyme”)
* Middle Low German rīm (“rhyme”)
* Old Frisian rīm (“number, amount, tale”)
* Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”) (modern German Reim (“rhyme”))
* Old Irish rīm (“number”)
* Old Norse rím (“calculation, calendar”) (Icelandic rím (“rhyme”), Norwegian rim (“rhyme”), Swedish rim (“rhyme”))
* Welsh rhif (“number”)
noun rhymes · rime · rhime
- Rhyming verse (poetic form). Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse. Tennyson’s rhymes
- A word that rhymes with another. Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.
- A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
- Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words. The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
- The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- 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.
- A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill. His rhymes are all weak.
- Number.
rhyme²
- /ɹaɪm/ Canada, US, UK
- /ɹɑem/ Australia
- [ɹɑe̯m] New Zealand
Sounds like rime · Rhymes with -aɪm
Where it comes from
From Middle English rimen, rymen, rim, rime (“to recite or write verse; to sing songs; to tell a story in verse; to fit into verse; (figurative) to agree, make sense”), from Anglo-Norman rimer, Middle French rimer, and Old French rimer (“to rhyme (a word) with another word; to write verse”) (modern French rimer), Old French rime, ryme (noun): see etymology 1.
Cognates
* Catalan rimar
* Icelandic ríma
* Italian rimar
* Middle Dutch rīmen (modern Dutch rijmen)
* Middle High German rīmen (modern German reimen)
* Middle Low German rīmen
* Old Danish rime (modern Danish rime)
* Old Occitan rimar (“to rhyme (a word) with another word; to write verse”)
* Old Swedish rima (modern Swedish rima)
* Portuguese rimar
* Spanish rimar
verb rhymes · rhyming · rhymed · rime · rhime
- To compose or treat in verse; versify. Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?
- To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof. Now she's tainted by the syringe Try to rhyme a word with orange
- 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.
- To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. Mug and rug rhyme.
- To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end. I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.
- To somewhat resemble or correspond with. In addition, the look rhymes with but inverts the meaning of the first silent look he gets instead of words when he asks Lucien in the photo shop if he remembers him, and Lucien shrugs his shoulders in denial.
- To number; count; reckon.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: verse, rime, poem, assonant, rhythm, behavior, point, ritual, rite, rim, ola, pace, mused, stanza, couplet, poetry
Translations
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noun verse, poetry
| 日本語 | 詩 uta |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 韻文 /韵文 yùnwén |
| Kiswahili | kina |
| Português | poesia |
| Français | strophe, vers |
| Deutsch | Reim |
| Ελληνικά | ομοιοκαταληξία omoiokatalixía |
| Română | vers, rimă |
| Русский | стихотворе́ние stixotvorénije, стих stix |
| العربية | قَصِيدَة qaṣīda, أُسْجُوعَة ʔusjūʕa |
| עברית | חֲרִיזָה kharizá |
noun word that rhymes with another
| Español | rima |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 운 un |
| 日本語 | 韻 in |
| 中文 | 韻 /韵 yùn, 韻腳 /韵脚 yùnjiǎo |
| हिन्दी | तुक tuk |
| Kiswahili | kina |
| Português | rima |
| Français | rime |
| Deutsch | Reim |
| Italiano | rima |
| Ελληνικά | ομοιοκαταληξία omoiokatalixía |
| Română | rimă |
| Русский | ри́фма rífma |
| Tiếng Việt | vần |
| العربية | قَافِيَة qāfiya |
| עברית | חָרוּז kharúz |
noun rhyming; sameness of letters or sounds of some parts of words, as ‘the poem exhibits rhyme’
| Español | rima |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 압운 abun |
| 日本語 | 押韻 ōin |
| 中文 | 押韻 /押韵 yāyùn |
| Português | rima |
| Deutsch | Reim |
| Ελληνικά | ομοιοκαταληξία omoiokatalixía |
| Română | rimă |
| Русский | ри́фма rífma |
| العربية | سَجْع sajʕ |
| עברית | חֲרִיזָה kharizá |
noun second part of a syllable
| Français | rime |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Silbenreim |
| Italiano | rima |
verb (transitive) put words together
| Español | rimar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 韻を踏む in o fumu |
| Português | rimar |
| Français | faire rimer |
| Deutsch | reimen |
| Italiano | fare rima |
| Ελληνικά | ομοιοκαταληκτώ omoiokataliktó |
| Русский | рифмова́ть rifmovátʹ |
verb (intransitive) to rhyme (with)
| Español | rimar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 韻を踏む in o fumu, 押韻する ōin suru |
| 中文 | 壓韻 /压韵 yāyùn, 押韻 /押韵 yāyùn |
| Português | rimar |
| Français | rimer |
| Deutsch | sich reimen (mit) |
| Italiano | mettere in rima |
| Ελληνικά | ομοιοκαταληκτώ omoiokataliktó |
| Română | rima |
| Русский | рифмова́ться rifmovátʹsja |
verb (reciprocal)
| Español | rimar |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 韻を踏む in o fumu |
| Português | rimar |
| Deutsch | sich reimen |
| Italiano | fare rima |
| Ελληνικά | ομοιοκαταληκτώ omoiokataliktó |
| Русский | рифмова́ться rifmovátʹsja |
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howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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