rhyme

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
2. (countable, uncountable) A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
3. (countable) A word that rhymes with another.
4. (countable) A word that rhymes with another.
5. (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
6. (countable, uncountable) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
7. (countable, informal, uncountable) An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
8. (broadly, countable, informal, uncountable) A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Number.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
2. (transitive) To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
3. (intransitive) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
4. (reciprocal) To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
5. (intransitive, usually) To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.
6. (figuratively, intransitive) To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To number; count; reckon.

Synonyms

rime

poetry

verse

poem

harmonize

ballad

stanza

assonance

alliterate

song

🎶

versification

assonate

bibliotherapy

crambo

hendecasyllable

proverbs

sound like

magnetic poetry

tropicalista

alliteration

branch

end rhyme

jingle

limerick

nursery rhyme

poesy

prosody

Translations

rime

rima

Reim

rima

rima

ομοιοκαταληξία

rijm

reimen

rimar

rimar

rima

rimer

rijmen

rimare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹaɪm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: rim

Cognate with French: rime

Cognate with Old English: rīm

Cognate with Ancient Greek: ἀριθμός

Cognate with Dutch: rijm

Cognate with Middle Low German: rīm

Cognate with Old Frisian: rīm

Cognate with Old High German: rīm

Cognate with German: Reim

Cognate with Old Irish: rim

Cognate with Old Norse: rím

Cognate with Icelandic: rím

Cognate with Norwegian: rim

Cognate with Swedish: rim

Cognate with Welsh: rhif

Inherited from Middle English: rimen

Cognate with French: rimer

Cognate with Catalan: rimar

Cognate with Icelandic: ríma

Cognate with Italian: rimar

Cognate with Middle Dutch: rīmen

Cognate with Dutch: rijmen

Cognate with Middle High German: rīmen

Cognate with German: reimen

Cognate with Middle Low German: rīmen

Cognate with Danish: rime

Cognate with Old Provençal: rimar

Cognate with Swedish: rima

Cognate with Portuguese: rimar

Cognate with Spanish: rimar

In summary

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”)