Antonyms for rhymes

Grammar : Noun

Spell : rahym

Phonetic Transcription : raɪm

prose

Definition of rhymes

Origin : "agreement in terminal sounds," 1560s, partially restored spelling, from Middle English ryme, rime (c.1200) "measure, meter, rhythm," later "rhymed verse" (mid-13c.), from Old French rime (fem.), related to Old Provençal rim (masc.), earlier *ritme, from Latin rithmus, from Greek rhythmos "measured motion, time, proportion" (see rhythm).
In Medieval Latin, rithmus was used for accentual, as opposed to quantitative, verse, and accentual verse usually was rhymed, hence the sense shift. Persistence of older form is due to popular association with Old English rim "number," from PIE root *re(i)- "to reason, count" (see read (v.)). Phrase rhyme or reason "good sense" (chiefly used in the negative) is from late 15c. (see reason (n.)). Rhyme scheme is attested from 1931. Rhyme royal (1841) is a stanza of seven 10-syllable lines rhymed a-b-a-b-b-c-c.

noun poetry in which lines end with like sounds

Example sentences :

However, I am going to give my imagination rein, and string some rhymes about them.
Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

Much of what was said was in poetry, or in verses, or rhymes, of three lines each.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

In this poem the rhymes have their share in its humorous charm.
Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald

Certainly the rhymes of a poem form no small part of its artistic existence.
Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald

I now began to be known in the neighbourhood as a maker of rhymes.
Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns

If I am not careful, these rhymes will put me under the table!
Extract from : « The Strollers » by Frederic S. Isham

It was about a century old when the boy Whittier scribbled his first rhymes upon it.
Extract from : « Whittier-land » by Samuel T. Pickard

We thought you was only a schoolteacher, wrapped up in rhymes and birds!
Extract from : « The Flockmaster of Poison Creek » by George W. Ogden

Wrestle as he would he 387 could not finish it––the rhymes were against him––it would not come right.
Extract from : « Hidden Water » by Dane Coolidge

By an odd chance, too, the rhymes in which they are set have all a tragic theme.
Extract from : « Views and Reviews » by William Ernest Henley

Synonyms for rhymes

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