rhyme
n. C / Un. a word that has the same sound as another word at the end. You often find these in songs and poems, like 'cat' and 'hat'.
n. the correspondence of terminal sounds in words or lines of verse. Often used to describe the phonetic similarity between the final stressed syllables of two or more words.
The words 'blue' and 'shoe' are a perfect rhyme.
The songwriter struggled to find a good rhyme for the word 'orange' and eventually changed the lyric.
While modern poetry often avoids strict meter, traditional sonnets rely on a specific rhyme scheme to create a sense of structural resolution and musicality for the reader.
From Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”), from Anglo-Norman rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”) (modern French rime); further etymology uncertain, possibly either: from Latin rhythmus (“rhythm”), from Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós, “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European srew- (“to flow; a stream”); or borrowed from Frankish rīm (“number, order, sequence, series, row of identical things”) (whence Old English rīm (“number, enumeration, series”)), from Proto-Indo-European h₂rey- (“to arrange; to count”) and h₂er- (“to fit, put together; to fix; to slot”). Cognates * Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”) * Dutch rijm (“rhyme”) * Middle Low German rīm (“rhyme”) * Old Frisian rīm (“number, amount, tale”) * Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”) (modern German Reim (“rhyme”)) * Old Irish rīm (“number”) * Old Norse rím (“calculation, calendar”) (Icelandic rím (“rhyme”), Norwegian rim (“rhyme”), Swedish rim (“rhyme”)) * Welsh rhif (“number”)
From Middle English rimen, rymen, rim, rime (“to recite or write verse; to sing songs; to tell a story in verse; to fit into verse; (figurative) to agree, make sense”), from Anglo-Norman rimer, Middle French rimer, and Old French rimer (“to rhyme (a word) with another word; to write verse”) (modern French rimer), Old French rime, ryme (noun): see etymology 1. Cognates * Catalan rimar * Icelandic ríma * Italian rimar * Middle Dutch rīmen (modern Dutch rijmen) * Middle High German rīmen (modern German reimen) * Middle Low German rīmen * Old Danish rime (modern Danish rime) * Old Occitan rimar (“to rhyme (a word) with another word; to write verse”) * Old Swedish rima (modern Swedish rima) * Portuguese rimar * Spanish rimar
Countable when referring to specific word pairs; uncountable when referring to the general concept of rhyming in literature.
The poem has many rhymes with 'love'.The poem has many rhymes for 'love'.When identifying a word that matches another, use the preposition 'for' rather than 'with'.