RHYME OR REASON

Meaning of RHYME OR REASON in English

noun

Etymology: translation of French ( sans ) rime ni raison (without) rhyme or reason

: good sense , reason , reasonableness

the order of entries is utterly without rhyme or reason — Saturday Review

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

RHYME OR REASON — noun Date: 15th century good sense or reason
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
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 OR REASON — n. phr. A good plan or reason; a reasonable purpose or explanation. Used in negative, interrogative, or conditional sentences. Don …
American Idioms English 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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