rhyme
verb/raɪm/
/raɪm/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they rhyme | /raɪm/ /raɪm/ |
| he / she / it rhymes | /raɪmz/ /raɪmz/ |
| past simple rhymed | /raɪmd/ /raɪmd/ |
| past participle rhymed | /raɪmd/ /raɪmd/ |
| -ing form rhyming | /ˈraɪmɪŋ/ /ˈraɪmɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] rhyme (with something) if two words, syllables, etc. rhyme, or if one rhymes with the other, they have or end with the same sound
- ‘Though’ rhymes with ‘low’.
- ‘Tough’ and ‘through’ don't rhyme.
- rhyming couplets
- ‘Quark’ is usually pronounced to rhyme with ‘lark’.
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- [transitive] rhyme something (with something) to put words that sound the same together, for example when you are writing poetry
- You can rhyme ‘girl’ with ‘curl’.
- [intransitive] (of a poem) to have lines that end with the same sound
- I prefer poems that rhyme.
Word OriginMiddle English rime, from Old French, from medieval Latin rithmus, via Latin from Greek rhuthmos (related to rhein ‘to flow’). The current spelling was introduced in the early 17th cent. under the influence of rhythm.
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