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rhyme

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Etymology 1

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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”),[1] 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:[2]

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Noun

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rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural rhymes)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
    Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.
  2. A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
    Tennyson’s rhymes
  3. (countable) A word that rhymes with another.
    Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.
    Rap makes use of rhymes such as “money … honey” and “nope … dope”.
    1. (countable, in particular) 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".
  4. (uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
    The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.
  6. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
    Coordinate term: onset
    Meronyms: nucleus, coda
  7. (informal, African-American Vernacular, hip hop) 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.
  8. (informal, by extension, African-American Vernacular, hip hop, always plural) A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
    His rhymes are all weak.
  9. (obsolete) Number.
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Etymology 2

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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”),[3] 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.[4]

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Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
  2. (transitive) To place (a word or words) in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
    • 2009, Julian Casablancas, “Long Island Blues”, in Phrazes for the Young, Luxury Edition Deluxe Set bonus disc:
      Now she's tainted by the syringe
      Try to rhyme a word with orange
  3. (intransitive, 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 and station.
    India and windier rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
  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.
  5. (intransitive, of an utterance, text, etc.) 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.
  6. (intransitive, figurative, followed by with) To somewhat resemble or correspond with.
    • 2010, Tony Pipolo, Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film:
      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.
  7. (transitive, obsolete) To number; count; reckon.
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References

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  1. ^ “rīm(e, n.(3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “rhyme, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2023; “rhyme, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. ^ “rīmen, v.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  4. ^ “rhyme, v.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2023; “rhyme, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Yola

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Noun

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rhyme

  1. alternative form of reem
    • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 108:
      Duggès an kauddès coome lick up a rhyme,
      Dogs and cats came to lick up the cream.

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 64
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