Rhyme
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Definition of Rhyme
Noun
- Rhyming verse (poetic form)
"Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days."
- A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
"Tennyson’s rhymes"
- A word that rhymes with another.
"Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”."
- 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"."
- Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
"The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme."
Verb
- To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- To place in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
- 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."
- To be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
"Mug and rug rhyme."
- 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."