rhyme means rhyming verse (poetic form).
rhyme is pronounced /ɹaɪm/.
Why “rhyme” is a great word
A correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when used at the end of lines of poetry, or the act of composing such verse. From Middle English rime, ryme, from Anglo-Norman rime, from Old French, of uncertain origin; possibly from Latin rhythmus ('measured motion, rhythm') from Ancient Greek ῥυθμός (rhuthmós), or possibly from Frankish *rīm ('number, series') from Proto-Germanic *rīmą, related to Old English rīm ('number'). Unlike rhythm, which governs the patterned pulse of time, or meter, which provides the scaffold of stressed and unstressed beats, rhyme is the acoustic echo, an echo seeking its twin. It is the satisfying click of a final lock, the chime of a remembered bell across a courtyard, the unexpected return of a forgotten scent on the wind—the small, persistent promise that in a world of entropy, a sound can find its way home.
Etymology
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-In
noun
- Rhyming verse (poetic form)“Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.”
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.“Tennyson’s rhymes”
- A word that rhymes with another.“Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.”
- A word that rhymes with another.; A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.“"Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".”
- Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.“The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.”
- The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
- An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.“I heard Drake's new rhyme last night.”
- A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.“His rhymes are all weak.”
- Number.
verb
- To compose or treat in verse; versify.“Ha, ha, hovv vildely doth this Cynicke rime?”
- To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.“Now she's tainted by the syringe
Try to rhyme a word with orange”
- Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.“Creation rhymes with integration and station.”
- To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.“Mug and rug rhyme.”
- To contain words that are pronounced identically to each other from the vowel in the stressed syllable to the end.“I rewrote the story to make it rhyme.”
- To somewhat resemble or correspond with.“In addition, the look rhymes with but inverts the meaning of the first silent look he gets instead of words when he asks Lucien in the photo shop if he remembers him, and Lucien shrugs his shoulders in denial.”
- To number; count; reckon.
Words closest in meaning
By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.
- poetry 88% match — Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm. vs rhyme →
- assonance 87% match — The repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds (though with different consonants), usually in literature or poetry. vs rhyme →
- scansion 86% match — The rhythm or meter of a line or verse. vs rhyme →
- sonnet 85% match — A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes. vs rhyme →
- pentameter 84% match — A line in a poem having five metrical feet. vs rhyme →
- assonate 84% match — To correspond or exhibit agreement in (particularly vowel) sounds. vs rhyme →
- poesy 84% match — A poem. vs rhyme →
- alliteration 83% match — The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables. vs rhyme →