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rhyme

  • noun
  • rīm

Rhyming verse (poetic form).

Example

“Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.”

Other meanings

  1. A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.

    “Tennyson’s rhymes”

  2. A word that rhymes with another.

    “Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.”

Example sentences

  • “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

    Tatoeba · deniko · CC0

Word history

From Anglo-Norman "rime".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “rhyme” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.