RHYME

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhyme mean? 

• RHYME (noun)
  The noun RHYME has 2 senses:

1. correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

2. a piece of poetry

  Familiarity information: RHYME used as a noun is rare.

• RHYME (verb)
  The verb RHYME has 2 senses:

1. compose rhymes

2. be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable

  Familiarity information: RHYME used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHYME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rhyme; rime

Hypernyms ("rhyme" is a kind of...):

versification (the form or metrical composition of a poem)

Domain member category:

assonant (having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhyme"):

internal rhyme (a rhyme between words in the same line)

alliteration; beginning rhyme; head rhyme; initial rhyme (use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse)

assonance; vowel rhyme (the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words)

consonance; consonant rhyme (the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words)

double rhyme (a two-syllable rhyme)

eye rhyme (an imperfect rhyme (e.g., 'love' and 'move'))

Holonyms ("rhyme" is a part of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Derivation:

rhyme (be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable)

rhymester (a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A piece of poetry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rhyme; verse

Hypernyms ("rhyme" is a kind of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhyme"):

clerihew (a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person)

doggerel; doggerel verse; jingle (a comic verse of irregular measure)

limerick (a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba)

Derivation:

rhyme (compose rhymes)

rhymester (a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets))

• RHYME (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rhyme    ... he / she / it rhymes   
Past simple: rhymed   
Past participle: rhymed   
-ing form: rhyming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compose rhymes

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

rhyme; rime

Hypernyms (to "rhyme" is one way to...):

create verbally (create with or from words)

Domain category:

poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rhyme"):

tag (supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes)

alliterate (use alliteration as a form of poetry)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

rhyme (a piece of poetry)

rhymer (a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

rhyme; rime

Context example:

hat and cat rhyme

Hypernyms (to "rhyme" is one way to...):

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rhyme"):

assonate (correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

rhyme (correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds))

 Context examples 

A small book of rhymes may be had for half a crown.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I just accepted beauty as something meaningless, as something that was just beautiful without rhyme or reason.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Oh that I were a minstrel, that I might put it into rhyme, with the whole romance—the luckless maid, the wicked socman, and the virtuous clerk!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here are two capital tragic parts for Yates and Crawford, and here is the rhyming Butler for me, if nobody else wants it; a trifling part, but the sort of thing I should not dislike, and, as I said before, I am determined to take anything and do my best.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And then, without rhyme or reason, all sceptical, my mind flew back to a small biographical note in the red-bound Who’s Who, and I said to myself, She was born in Cambridge, and she is twenty-seven years old.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The rhythm of “God Save the King” swelled through the babel, and I heard the old lines sung in a way that made you forget their bad rhymes and their bald sentiments.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The metre marched along on perfect feet, and the rhyme pounded a longer and equally faultless rhythm, but the glow and high exaltation that he felt within were lacking.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He intoned a long whining rhyme in the French tongue, and at the end of every line he raised a thick cord, all jagged with pellets of lead, and smote his companion across the shoulders until the blood spurted again.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Out of rhyming, yes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I remember well that, at the siege of Retters, there was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)