RHYMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rhyming mean? 

• RHYMING (adjective)
  The adjective RHYMING has 1 sense:

1. having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds

  Familiarity information: RHYMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHYMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds

Synonyms:

rhymed; rhyming; riming

Context example:

rhyming words

Similar:

alliterative (having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable)

assonant (having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables)

end-rhymed (rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses)

 Context examples 

Out of rhyming, yes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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)