rhyme
Meanings
Plural: rhymes
Noun
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
- a piece of poetry
- Rhyming verse (poetic form)
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
- A word that rhymes with another.
- A word that rhymes with another.
- 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.
- Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
- 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.
- A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
- Number.
Verb
- compose rhymes
- be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
- "hat and cat rhyme"
- To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
- To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
- To number; count; reckon.
Origin / Etymology
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”)
Scrabble Score: 13
rhyme is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordrhyme is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
rhyme is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary