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Definition: Rhymer |
RhymerNoun1. A writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rhymer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Rhymer Thomas the Rhymer. Thomas Learmount, of Ercildoune, who lived in the thirteenth century. This was quite a different person to Thomas Rymer, the historiographer royal to William III. (who flourished 1283). (See True Thomas .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: RhymerSynonyms: poetizer (n), rhymester (n), versifier (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Poetry | Poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger; improvisatore; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist, rhymester; ballad monger, runer; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rhymer |
| English words defined with "rhymer": Poetaster ♦ Rhymist, Rimer ♦ Versemonger. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rhymer": Corn - Law Rhymer. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Song Titles | Thomas The Rhymer (performing artist: Steeleye Span) | |
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| "Rhymer" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Rhymer" is used about 3 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 (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rhymer" 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 |
| Rhymer | Last name | 1,000 | 14,496 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dictionary rhymer | 128 |
rhymer | 34 |
rhymer word | 15 |
thomas the rhymer | 7 |
online rhymer | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rhymer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vargëzues (rhymester). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стихоплетец (poetaster, rhymester, versemonger, weaver of rhymes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | veršotepec (rhymester). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | runoniekka (versifier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dichterling (poetaster, rhymester, versifier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στιχουργόσ (librettist, verse writer, versifier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | verselõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rimatore (Rimer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ymerrhay rimador, versificador (versifier), versejador (metrics). (various references) versificator (metrist, poetical, Rimer, versifier). (various references) рифмоплет (poetaster, rhymester, versemonger, verse-monger). (various references) stihopisac (rhymester). (various references) rimador (rhymester, rhyming). (various references) rimsmidare, rimsmed (rhymester). (various references) şair bozuntusu (poetaster, rhymester, would-be poet), acemi şair (rhymester). (various references) віршомаз (poetaster, rhymester). (various references) người làm thơ (versificator, versifier), người biết làm thơ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "rhymer": rhymers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rhymer" (pronounced rī"mer) |
| 4 | r ī" m er | primer, Rimer. |
| 3 | -ī" m er | climber, dimer, timer. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-m-r-r-y" | |
-1 letter: herry, merry, myrrh, rhyme. | |
-2 letters: herm. | |
-3 letters: err, hem, her, hey, rem, rye, yeh. | |
-4 letters: eh, em, er, he, hm, me, my, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-m-r-r-y" | |
+1 letter: rhymers. | |
+2 letters: hermitry. | |
+3 letters: erythrism, pyrethrum, rhymester. | |
+4 letters: erythremia, erythrisms, hydrometer, hygrometer, hypermeter, pyrethrums, rhymesters. | |
+5 letters: chronometry, erythremias, erythrismal, eurythermal, eurythermic, hemerythrin, hydrometeor, hydrometers, hydrometric, hygrometers, hygrometric, hypermarket, hypermeters, hypermetric, hypermodern, morphometry, mycorrhizae, thermometry. | |
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