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Definition: Rhyme |
RhymeNoun1. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds). 2. A piece of poetry. Verb1. Compose rhymes. 2. Be similar in sound, esp. with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rhyme" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
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Literature | Rhyme Neither rhyme nor reason. Fit neither for amusement nor instruction. An author took his book to Sir Thomas More, chancellor in the reign of Henry VIII, and asked his opinion. Sir Thomas told the author to turn it into rhyme. He did so, and submitted it again to the lord chancellor. "Ay! ay!" said the witty satirist, "that will do, that will do. 'Tis rhyme now, but before it was neither rhyme nor reason." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A rhyme is the association of words with similar terminal sounds, a technique most often used in poetry. (Indeed, "a rhyme" is sometimes used to refer to a rhyming couplet or short verse; see nursery rhyme.) While most commonly referring to the sounds of words as spoken, the term has also been applied (as "sight rhyme") to written words which appear alike. In true rhyme, it is the final vowel/consonant combination that are repeated across the rhyming words.Categories of rhyme include:
Rhyme has different effects in different languages. It was unknown in Latin, until it was introduced under the influence of local vernacular traditions in the early Middle Ages:
- masculine: stress on final syllable of word. Eg "rhyme", "sublime", "crime"
- feminine: stress on penultimate syllable of word. Eg "wiki", "tricky", "sticky"
- triple: all three of a three-syllable word stressed equally
- perfect: identical in sound
- oblique (or slant): imperfect match in sound
- consonance: consonant match. For example: her, dark,
- assonance: vowel match. For example: shake, bait
- sight (or eye): similarity in spelling although not sound. Eg "cough", "bough"
In English, elaborate rhymes of more than two syllables are termed macaronic and have a comic effect.
- ''Dies irae, dies illa
- ''Solvet saeclum in favilla
- Teste David cum Sybilla
In French rime riche— 'rich rhyme' of two syllables— and rime richissime— 'richest rhyme' of more syllables— have been admired in the past.
The most extreme example of rime richissime is:
i.e.
- Gall, amant de la Reine, alla (tour magnanime)
- Gallamant de l'Arène à la Tour Magne, à Nimes.
- Gallus, lover of the Queen, went (magnanimous gesture)
- Gallantly from the Arena to the Great Tower, at Nimes.
External link
- Online Rhyming Dictionary
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rhyme."
Synonyms: RhymeSynonyms: verse (n), rime (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence of Motive | Adjective: without rhyme or reason; aimless, capricious, whimsical; (chance). |
Absurdity | Foolish; sophistical; unmeaning; without rhyme or reason; fantastic. |
Caprice | Adverb: by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason. |
Poetry | Verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm; accentuation; (voice); dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus. |
Verb: poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan. | |
Similarity | Verb: be similar; Adjective: look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate; favor, span. |
Render similar; Adjective: assimilate, approximate, bring near; connaturalize, make alike; rhyme, pun. | |
Alliteration, rhyme, pun. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rhyme |
| English words defined with "rhyme": assonate ♦ Berhyme, Bouts-rimes ♦ Crambo ♦ elegiac stanza, Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet, eye rhyme ♦ Feminine rhyme ♦ heroic stanza, Humpty Dumpty ♦ internal rhyme, Italian sonnet ♦ Limerick ♦ mackerel sky, Mackerel-back sky, masculine, Monorhyme ♦ ottava rima ♦ Petrarchan sonnet ♦ Rhime, rhyme royal, rhymeless, Rhymic, Riding rhyme, rimeless, Rimey ♦ Shakespearean sonnet, sonnet, Spenserian sonnet, Spenserian stanza ♦ terza rima ♦ unrhymed, unrimed ♦ Warling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rhyme": Age of Animals. ♦ Bower Anchor, Bower of Bliss, Bower-woman, Bowyer God ♦ Cat Proverbs, Chriss-cross Row, Cross-patch ♦ GOETHE ♦ HEATHEN ♦ IBYCUS ♦ KISS ♦ Lawn-market, Letter-Gae ♦ Malherbe's Canons of French Poetry ♦ Nursery Tales ♦ Plates ♦ Rags and Jags. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rhyme": Warling. (references) |
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Screenplays | So you see, the whole thing has been as inevitable as in a nursery rhyme. When the boat arrives from the mainland, there will be ten dead bodies, and a riddle no one can solve on Indian Island (And Then There Were None; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Dudley Nichols) Boney on a dishy doesn't rhyme. (The Shiny Show; writing credit: Chris Ellis) Albania's hard to rhyme. (Wag the Dog; writing credit: Hilary Henkin) You like to rhyme, boy (Major Payne; writing credit: Joe Connelly; Bob Mosher) It even makes me rhyme. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. Based on the play 'The Taming of the Shrew' by William Shakespeare.) | |
Lyrics | And it doesn't have to rhyme so don't you feed me a line (Run-Around; performing artist: Blues Traveler) When paintings have no color, words don't rhyme (Sentimental Lady; performing artist: BOB WELCH; writing credit: Bob Welch) Won't you get me to the rhyme, (TRAVELIN' BAND; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) And her rhyme (THE WANDERER; performing artist: Donna Summer) Your rhyme sounds like you bought em at Stop N Go (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre) | |
Clever | I make a rhyme every time. (references; author: unknown) No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver, or purple. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Once Upon a Rhyme (1950) Nursery Rhyme Mysteries (1943) The Rhyme That Went Wrong (1919) Rhyme & Reason (1997) Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990) | |
Song Titles | Sam's Rhyme of the Troll (performing artist: JRR Tolkien) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Writing a nursery rhyme in praise of Peking. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice. |
John Milton | Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. |
Nicholas Boileau | Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. |
Stephane Mallarme | The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer. |
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| "Rhyme" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.54% of the time. "Rhyme" is used about 260 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.54% | 225 | 20,080 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 10.77% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.69% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 260 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rhyme" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rhyme | Last name | 130 | 60,807 |
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Expressions using "rhyme": beginning rhyme ♦ consonant rhyme ♦ double rhyme ♦ end rhyme ♦ eye rhyme ♦ Female rhyme ♦ Feminine rhyme ♦ head rhyme ♦ in rhyme ♦ initial rhyme ♦ internal rhyme ♦ Male rhyme ♦ masculine rhyme ♦ mnemonic rhyme ♦ nursery rhyme ♦ nursery rhyme animal ♦ rhyme or reason ♦ rhyme royal ♦ rhyme scheme ♦ rhyme tests ♦ rhyme with ♦ riding rhyme ♦ single rhyme ♦ stave rhyme ♦ vowel rhyme ♦ without rhyme ♦ without rhyme or reason. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rhyme": rhyme-principle, rhyme-royal, rhyme-scheme, rhyme-words. | |
Ending with "rhyme": tail-rhyme. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "rhyme"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | berym. (various references) | |
Albanian | rimoj, rimë (rime), poezi (lay, minstrelsy, poetry, verse). (various references) | |
Arabic | نظم الشعر المقفى, نظم شعرا رديئا, قفى (snooze), قصيدة مقفاة, قافية (bead), قرزم, شعر (feel, felt, furriness, hair, notify, poetry, sense, song, verse, warn), بيت شعر (verse). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стихче, римувана дума, римувам се, римувам (tag), рима, хармонирам се, пиша стихове (poeticize, verse). (various references) | |
Chinese | 韻 , 押韵 (rhymed, rhyming), 押韻 , "韻 . (various references) | |
Czech | rýmovat, rým, veršovat (verse, versify), verš (line, verse), báseò (eclogue, liner, poem). (various references) | |
Dutch | rijmen, rijmen, rijm, rýmen (adhere, bring into agreement, come to an agreement, conform, fit), rým (hoar-frost), op rijm zetten, op rým zetten, laten rijmen, laten rýmen, berijmen, berijmen, berýmen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | rimo, rimigi, rimi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ríma (chanson), rím (hoar-frost). (various references) | |
Farsi | پساوند (Rime, Suffix), هم قافیه شدن , نظم (Array, Collocation, Discipline, Meter, Order, Poem, Poetry, Rank, System, Train, Verse), قافیه ساختن , سخن قافیه دار, شعرگفتن (Verse), شعر (Measure, Poem, Poesy, Poetry, Rime, Song, Verse), بساوند. (various references) | |
Finnish | riimi. (various references) | |
French | rime. (various references) | |
German | Reim (rime), reimen (make up rhymes, versify). (various references) | |
Greek | ομοιοκαταληκτώ, ομοιοκαταληξία (rime). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משקל "שיר (meter, time), לחרוז (versify), ל"תחרז, חריז" (jingle, versification). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rím, vers (erotic, lines, numbers, piece of poetry, poem, verse). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sajak (verse). (various references) | |
Italian | rimare (rime), rima (poetry, rhymed verses, rime), poesia (lyric, piece of poetry, poem, poetry, rime, verse), mettere in rima (rime). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 韻 , 脚韻 (end rhyme), ライフル銃 (Leipzig, librarian, library, life-work, lilac, lime, limelight, live, live house, live recording, live show, ribosome, rifle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ライ (lime), きゃくい" (end rhyme, guestmember), い" (cause, factor, mark, member, official rank, permit, print, seal, sincerity, stamp, yin). (various references) | |
Korean | 각운. (various references) | |
Manx | jannoo drane (rhyming), drane (poetry), cur ayns drane (rhyming). (various references) | |
Papiamen | reim. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ymerhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rima (catchword, clink, headword, pile, rime), rimar (chime, ding-dong, emboss, rime). (various references) | |
Romanian | rimã (clink, rime), rima (root), versuri, pune în versuri, poezie (beauty, charm, line, parnassus, piece of poetry, poem, poesy, poetry, rep, verse), face versuri, face sã rimeze. (various references) | |
Russian | рифма (crambo). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rimovati (berhyme, berime, rime), rima (rime), slik. (various references) | |
Spanish | rima (rime). (various references) | |
Swedish | rimma (salt slightly), rim (hoar-frost). (various references) | |
Thai | ใช้เสียงสัมผัส, เสียงสัมผัสในบทกวี, เขียนบทกวี, บทกวี (ode, rondeau). (various references) | |
Turkish | uyaklı olmak, uyak (end rhyme, foot, rime), kafiyeli yazmak, kafiyeli söylemek, kafiye yapmak, kafiye (end rhyme, rhyming, rime), kısa şiir (posy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | rifma (r), kapyяalaюmak, kapyяalaюdyrmak (make something rhyme), kapyяa. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ритм (beat, cadence, lilt, pulse, rhythm, tempo), римуватися, римувати (rime), римований вірш, рима (rime). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhigymu (versify), rhigwm (rigamarole), odli, odl (ode, song). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | poema poematis. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | ryme. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rhyme": rhymed, rhymeless, rhymer, rhymers, rhymes, rhymester, rhymesters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rhyme": berhyme, monorhyme. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rhyme": berhymed, berhymes, monorhymed, monorhymes, unrhymed. (additional references) | |
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"Rhyme" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hyme, khymer, Ohime, phywe, Rahima, Rahimah, Rahimi, rehome, rhema, Rhie, rhiem, rhim, Rhime, Rhy, rhye, rhym, rhymn, Rhynd, rhyne, Rhyns, rhytme, ryhem, ryhm, ryhme, rymax, ryme, ryne, shyme. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rhyme" (pronounced rī"m) |
| 3 | r ī" m | anticrime, prime, crime, grime. |
| 2 | -ī" m | mime, onetime, chime, climb, dime, lime, slime, sublime, thyme, time. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-m-r-y" | |
-1 letter: herm. | |
-2 letters: hem, her, hey, rem, rye, yeh. | |
-3 letters: eh, em, er, he, hm, me, my, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-m-r-y" | |
+1 letter: rheumy, rhymed, rhymer, rhymes. | |
+2 letters: berhyme, mothery, mynheer, mythier, rhymers, thymier. | |
+3 letters: berhymed, berhymes, chemurgy, erythema, eurythmy, haymaker, hermitry, hydromel, hypoderm, motherly, mynheers, shimmery, smithery, smothery, unrhymed. | |
+4 letters: archenemy, berhyming, champerty, chemistry, cherimoya, diathermy, erythemas, erythrism, eurhythmy, eurythmic, haymakers, hemelytra, heteronym, hydromels, hymnaries, hyperemia, hyperemic, hypergamy, hypoderms, machinery, monorhyme, mythmaker, pachyderm, perilymph, pyrethrum, rhymeless, rhymester, rhythmize, rhytidome, thermally. | |
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