RHYME


Meaning of RHYME in English

— rhymer , n.

/ruym/ , n. , v. , rhymed, rhyming .

n.

1. identity in sound of some part, esp. the end, of words or lines of verse.

2. a word agreeing with another in terminal sound: Find is a rhyme for mind and womankind.

3. verse or poetry having correspondence in the terminal sounds of the lines.

4. a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.

5. verse (def. 4).

6. rhyme or reason , logic, sense, or plan: There was no rhyme or reason for what they did.

v.t.

7. to treat in rhyme, as a subject; turn into rhyme, as something in prose.

8. to compose (verse or the like) in metrical form with rhymes.

9. to use (a word) as a rhyme to another word; use (words) as rhymes.

v.i.

10. to make rhyme or verse; versify.

11. to use rhyme in writing verse.

12. to form a rhyme, as one word or line with another: a word that rhymes with orange.

13. to be composed in metrical form with rhymes, as verse: poetry that rhymes.

Also, rime .

[ 1250-1300; ME rime rimer to rhyme rimare to put in a row rim series, row; prob. not connected with L rhythmus rhythm, although current sp. (from c1600) appar. by assoc. with this word ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .