RHYME OR REASON

Meaning of RHYME OR REASON in English

n. phr. A good plan or reason; a reasonable purpose or explanation. Used in negative, interrogative, or conditional sentences. Don could see no rhyme or reason to the plot of the play. It seemed to Ruth that her little brother had temper tantrums without rhyme or reason.

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RHYME OR REASON — noun Date: 15th century good sense or reason
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
RHYME OR REASON — noun Etymology: translation of French ( sans ) rime ni raison (without) rhyme or reason : good sense , reason …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
RHYME OR REASON — Date: 15th century : good sense or reason
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
RHYME OR REASON — Function: noun Date: 15th century : good sense or reason
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
RHYME OR REASON — [rhyme or reason] n (15c): good sense or reason
Merriam-Webster English vocab
RHYME OR REASON — see rhyme
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
RHYME OR REASON — see rhyme
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
RHYME OR REASON — {n. phr.} A good plan or reason; a reasonable purpose or explanation. - Used in negative, interrogative, or conditional sentences. …
Slang English vocab
RHYME OR REASON — {n. phr.} A good plan or reason; a reasonable purpose or explanation. - Used in negative, interrogative, or conditional sentences. …
Словарь английских идиом
RHYME OR REASON — (See no rhyme or reason)
English Idioms vocab
RHYME OR REASON — See no rhyme or reason
English Idioms vocabulary
RHYME — Type of echoing produced by the close placement of two or more words with similarly sounding final syllables. Rhyme is …
Английский словарь Британика
RHYME
Webster's New International English Dictionary
REASON — I. reas·on ˈrez ə n noun ( -s ) Etymology: alteration of Middle English rasen, from Old English ræsn; akin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
OR — I. _ə(r), (|)ȯ(ə)r, (|)ȯ(ə), in southern US also (|)ä(r) conjunction Etymology: Middle English other, or, from Old English oththe, oththa, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
RHYME — (v. t.) To influence by rhyme.
Английский словарь Webster
RHYME — (v. t.) To put into rhyme.
Английский словарь Webster
RHYME — (n.) To accord in rhyme or sound.
Английский словарь Webster
RHYME — — rhymer , n. /ruym/ , n. , v. , rhymed, rhyming . n. 1. identity in sound of some …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
REASON — — reasoner , n. /ree"zeuhn/ , n. 1. a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
RHYME — I. noun also rime ˈrīm Etymology: Middle English rime, from Anglo-French Date: 13th century 1. a. (1) : rhyming verse …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
REASON — I. ˈrē-z ə n noun Etymology: Middle English resoun, from Anglo-French raisun, from Latin ration-, ratio reason, computation, from reri …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
RHYME — vt to put into rhyme. 2. rhyme ·vt to influence by rhyme. 3. rhyme ·noun to make rhymes, or verses. …
Webster English vocab
REASON — noun ratio; proportion. 2. reason ·vt to support with reasons, as a request. 3. reason ·noun to converse; to compare …
Webster English vocab
RHYME — [rhyme] n [ME rime, fr. OF] (13c) 1 a (1): rhyming verse (2): poetry b: a composition in verse that …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
REASON — [rea.son] n [ME resoun, fr. OF raison, fr. L ration-, ratio reason, computation, fr. reri to calculate, think; prob. akin …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
RHYME — also spelled rime the correspondence of two or more words with similar-sounding final syllables placed so as to echo one …
Britannica English vocabulary
REASON — in philosophy, the faculty or process of drawing logical inferences. The term reason is also used in several other, narrower …
Britannica English vocabulary
RHYME — / raɪm; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] a word that has the same sound …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
REASON — / ˈriːzn; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] reason (why ... ) | reason (that …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
RHYME — I. rhyme 1 /raɪm/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: rime , probably from …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
REASON — I. rea ‧ son 1 S1 W1 /ˈriːz ə n/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ reason …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
OR — or S1 W1 /ə; strong ɔː $ ər strong ɔːr/ BrE AmE conjunction [ Language: Old English ; Origin: oththe …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
RHYME — n. & v. --n. 1 identity of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. in verse. 2 (in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
REASON — n. & v. --n. 1 a motive, cause, or justification (has good reasons for doing this; there is no reason …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
OR — conj. 1 a introducing the second of two alternatives (white or black). b introducing all but the first, or only …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
RHYME — n. & v. n. 1 identity of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. in verse. 2 (in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
REASON — n. & v. n. 1 a motive, cause, or justification (has good reasons for doing this; there is no reason …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
OR — conj. 1 a introducing the second of two alternatives (white or black). b introducing all but the first, or only …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
RHYME — n. & v. --n. 1. identity of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. in verse. 2 (in …
Oxford English vocab
REASON — n. & v. --n. 1. a motive, cause, or justification (has good reasons for doing this; there is no reason …
Oxford English vocab
OR — 1.conj. 1. a introducing the second of two alternatives (white or black). b introducing all but the first, or only …
Oxford English vocab
RHYME — ( rhymes, rhyming, rhymed) 1. If one word rhymes with another or if two words rhyme , they have a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
REASON — ( reasons, reasoning, reasoned) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. The reason …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OR — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You use or to link two …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
RHYME — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES nursery rhyme rhyming slang COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN nursery ▪ Nursery rhymes A …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
REASON
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
OR
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
RHYME — [noun]A rhyme is a word which has the same last sound as another word.The rhyme in the last line of …
Cambridge English vocab
REASON — (JUDGMENT) [noun] [U] - the ability of a healthy mind to think and make judgments, esp. based on practical factsWe …
Cambridge English vocab
RHYME — n. Type of echoing produced by the close placement of two or more words with similarly sounding final syllables. Rhyme …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
RHYME — Synonyms and related words : English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, accord, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
REASON — Synonyms and related words : Vernunft, acceptable, accomplishment, account, admissibility, advise with, aim, air, allegorization, ambition, analyze, answer, antecedent, apologia, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
RHYME — I. noun 1 using words that have the same sound as each other ADJECTIVE ▪ internal RHYME + NOUN ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
REASON — See ↑ CAUSE 10, ↑ REASON 1,2 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be no reason • ↑ be the reason • ↑ …
Longman Activator English vocab
REASON — INDEX: 1. why something happens or why someone does something 2. why something is right or should be done 3. …
Longman Activator English vocab
REASON — n. 25B6; noun the main reason for his decision : CAUSE, ground(s), basis, rationale; motive, motivation, purpose, point, aim, intention, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
RHYME — n. 1 rime, poem, poetry, verse, versification, metrical composition, song The art of rhyme may well be coincident with the …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
REASON — n. 1 justification, argument, case, explanation, rationale, ground(s), pretext, vindication, defence, why (and wherefore), Literary apologia, apology What reason did …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
REASON — noun 1 BAD : What was the reason for the traffic jam? GOOD : What was the cause of the …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
RHYME — 1. сущ. 1) рифма, рифмованный стих to find a rhyme to a word ≈ найти рифму к слову beginning rhyme …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
REASON — 1. сущ. 1) разум, рассудок, ум, интеллект bereft of reason Syn : mind, brain, intellect, mentality 2) благоразумие, здравомыслие; здравый …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
OR — I союз или, иначе Make haste or else you will be late. ≈ Торопитесь, иначе вы опоздаете. or so ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
RHYME — rhyme.ogg 1. raım n стих. 1. рифма male /masculine/ rhyme - мужская рифма female /feminine/ rhyme - женская рифма perfect …
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