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Definition of "rhyme" []

  • Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. (noun)
  • A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines. (noun)
  • Poetry or verse of this kind. (noun)
  • A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold. (noun)
  • To form a rhyme. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "rhyme" in a sentence
  • "Verse without rhyme, is a body without a soul, (for the “chief life consisteth in the rhyme”) or a bell without a clapper; which, in strictness, is no bell, as being neither of use nor delight."
  • "Why, for instance, Riordan has his characters speak in rhyme is never satisfactorily revealed."
  • "I appreciate the implication that these small couplets are the only inoculation against certain death that kids have in their defensive arsenal -- and that the rhyme is a lesson hard-learned, acquired from the corpses of generations."