Meaning of Rhyme | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Rhyming verse (poetic form)
   countable, uncountable
2. A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
   countable, uncountable
3. A word that rhymes with another.
   countable
4. 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.
   countable
5. Rhyming: sameness of letters or sounds of part of some words.
   uncountable
6. The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
   countable, uncountable
7. An instance of rapping; a rapped verse; a line or couple lines of rapping; a hip hop song.
   countable, informal, uncountable
8. A rapper's oeuvre, lyricism or skill.
   broadly, countable, informal, uncountable
9. Number.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Many editors say they don’t want stories written in rhyme these days.”

“Libels are caſt againſt thee in the ſtreete, / Ballads and rimes made of thy ouerthrovv.”

“Thou, thou, Lyſander, thou haſt giuen her rimes, / And interchang'd loue tokens vvith my childe: […]”

“VVhen in the Chronicle of vvaſted time, / I ſee diſcriptions of the faireſt vvights, / And beautie making beautifull old rime, / In praiſe of Ladies dead, and louely Knights, […]”

“I thought, if I could dravv my paines, / Through Rimes vexation, I ſhould them allay, / Griefe brought to numbers cannot be ſo fierce, / For, he tames it, that fetters it in verſe.”

“Tennyson’s rhymes”

“Norse poetry is littered with rhymes like “sól … sunnan”.”

“Rap makes use of rhymes such as “money … honey” and “nope … dope”.”

“"Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".”

“The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme.”

“[M]ary I cannot ſhevv it in rime, I haue tried, I can finde out no rime to Ladie, but babie, an innocent rime: for ſcorne, horne, a hard rime: for ſchoole foole, a babling rime: very ominous endings, no, I vvas not borne vnder a riming plannet, nor i cannot vvooe in feſtiuall termes: […]”

“Sometimes a man knovvs a place determinate, vvithin the compaſſe vvhereof he is to ſeek: […] as a man ſhould run over the Alphabet, to ſtart a rime.”

“[S]hould not all the world delight to honour this unfortunate and loyal follower of the Muses? May Apollo send him rimes hitherto undreamed of; […]”

“I heard Drake's new rhyme last night.”

“His rhymes are all weak.”

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