rhyme

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rhyme[1,noun] rhyme[2,verb] rime[1,noun] rime[2,transitive verb] rime[3]

Main Entry: ¹rhyme
Variant(s): also rime /'rIm/
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English rime, from Anglo-French
1 a (1) : rhyming verse (2) : POETRY b : a composition in verse that rhymes
2 a : correspondence in terminal sounds of units of composition or utterance (as two or more words or lines of verse) b : one of two or more words thus corresponding in sound c : correspondence of other than terminal word sounds: as (1) : ALLITERATION (2) : INTERNAL RHYME
3 : RHYTHM, MEASURE
- rhyme·less adjective