| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| rhyme |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  r m |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also rime |
| NOUN: | 1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. 2a. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines. b. Poetry or verse of this kind. 3. A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: rhymed also rimed, rhym·ing, rim·ing, rhymes, rimes
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To form a rhyme. 2. To compose rhymes or verse. 3. To make use of rhymes in composing verse. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes. 2. To use (a word or words) as a rhyme. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Alteration (influenced by rhythm) of Middle English rime, from Old French, of Germanic origin. See ar- in Appendix I.
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