rhyme

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English

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Alternative forms

• rime
• rhime (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: rīm, IPA: /raɪm/, SAMPA: /raIm/

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• Rhymes: -aɪm
• Homophone: rime

Etymology 1

From Middle English ryme, rime (“number, rhyme, verse”), from Old English rīm (“number, counting, reckoning, calendar, numeral, sum, aggregate, value, enumeration, series”), from Proto-Germanic *rīman (“calculation, number”), from Proto-Indo-European *(a)rēy- (“to regulate, count”). Cognate with Old Frisian rīm (“number, amount, tale”), Old High German rīm (“series, row, number”), Old Norse rím (“calculation, calendar”), Middle Low German rīm (“rhyme”), Dutch rijm (“rhyme”), German Reim (“rhyme”), Swedish rim (“rhyme”), Icelandic rím (“rhyme”), Old Irish rīm (“number”), Welsh rhif (“number”), Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number”). Meaning influenced in Middle English by Old French rime (“rhyme”), from the same Germanic source.

Noun

rhyme (plural rhymes)

1. (obsolete) Number.
2. Thought expressed in verse; verse; meter; poetry; a poem; a tale in verse.

   nursery rhyme

3. (uncountable) The fact of rhyming.

   Many editors say they don't want stories written in rhyme.

4. A word that rhymes with another.

   "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".

5. (linguistics) (see rime)

Derived terms

Terms derived from rhyme (noun)

rhyme or reason eye rhyme

female rhyme male rhyme

nursery rhyme

Translations

verse, poetry

Arabic: قافية (ar) (qaafiyya) f. Catalan: rima (ca) f. Czech: (dětská) říkanka (cs) f., rýmovačka (cs) f. Dutch: rijm (nl) n., rijmpje (nl) n., vers (nl) n., versje (nl) n. German: Reim (de) m. Greek: ομοιοκαταληξία (el) (omoiokatalixía) f.

Japanese: 詩 (ja) (うた, uta) Romanian: vers (ro) n., rimă (ro) f. Russian: стих (ru) (stix) m., стихотоврение (ru) (stixotvor'énije) n. Swahili: kina (sw) Turkish: kafiye (tr), uyak (tr) Yiddish: גראם (yi)

fact of rhyming

Catalan: rima (ca) f. Dutch: rijm (nl) n. German: Reim (de) m., Reim (de) m. Greek: ομοιοκαταληξία (el) (omoiokatalixía) f.

Romanian: rimă (ro) f. Serbian: slik (sr) m., srok (sr) m. Spanish: rima (es) f.

word that rhymes with another

Catalan: rima (ca) f. Czech: rým (cs) m. Dutch: rijmwoord (nl) n. Finnish: riimi (fi) French: rime (fr) f. Greek: ομοιοκαταληξία (el) (omoiokatalixía) f. Hungarian: rím (hu) Italian: rima (it) f.

Japanese: 韻 (ja) (いん, in) Polish: rym (pl) m. Portuguese: rima (pt) f. Romanian: rimă (ro) f. Russian: рифма (ru) (rífma) m. Serbian: slik (sr) m., srok (sr) m. Slovene: rima (sl) f. Spanish: rima (es) m.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rymen, rimen, from Old English rīman (“to count, count off, list, number, reckon, enumerate, recount, describe in succession, tell, calculate, compute, count up, account, esteem as”), from Proto-Germanic *rīmanan (“to count”), from Proto-Indo-European *(a)rēy- (“to regulate, count”). Cognate with Old High German rīman (“to number, count, count up”), Dutch rijmen (“to rhyme”).

Verb

rhyme (third-person singular simple present rhymes, present participle rhyming, simple past and past participle rhymed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To number; count; reckon.
2. (transitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
3. (transitive, followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.

   "Creation" rhymes with "integration".

4. (reciprocal) Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.

   "Mug" and "rug" rhyme.

   "India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.

5. (transitive) To put words together so that they rhyme.

   I rewrote it to make it rhyme.

Derived terms

Terms derived from rhyme (verb)

rhyme off

rhyming slang

Translations

transitive, to rhyme with

Catalan: rimar (ca) Czech: rýmovat (cs) se Dutch: rijmen (nl) Finnish: rimmata (fi) German: sich reimen Greek: ομοιοκαταληκτώ (el) (omoiokataliktó) Hungarian: rímel (hu) Japanese: 韻を踏む (ja) (いんをふむ, in o fumu)

Norwegian: rime (no) Portuguese: rimar (pt) Romanian: rima (ro) Russian: рифмоваться (ru) (rifmovát's'a) impf. Serbian: slikovati (sr), srokovati (sr) Slovene: rimati se Spanish: rimar (es)

reciprocal

Catalan: rimar (ca) Czech: rýmovat (cs) se Dutch: (op elkaar) rijmen (nl) Finnish: rimmata (fi) German: sich reimen Greek: ομοιοκαταληκτώ (el) (omoiokataliktó)

Japanese: 韻を踏む (ja) (いんをふむ, in o fumu) Portuguese: rimar (pt) Russian: рифмоваться (ru) (rifmovát's'a) impf. Serbian: slikovati (sr), srokovati (sr) Slovene: rimati se Spanish: rimar (es)

put words together

Catalan: rimar (ca) Czech: rýmovat (cs) Dutch: rijmen (nl) Finnish: riimitellä (fi)

Greek: ομοιοκαταληκτώ (el) (omoiokataliktó) Japanese: 韻を踏む (ja) (いんをふむ, in o fumu) Portuguese: rimar (pt) Russian: рифмовать (ru) (rifmovát') impf. Spanish: rimar (es)

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Mandarin: 韵 (yùn) n., 押韵 (yayun) v French: vers mpl, rime f., rimer vi Italian: rima f., rimare vi

Portuguese: rima