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Synonyms for rhyme

Grammar : Noun
Spell : rahym
Phonetic Transcription : raɪm

Top 10 synonyms for rhyme
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Définition of rhyme

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 :
  • One of these was "Ole Chariot," perhaps as a rhyme to the name by which they called her.
  • Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
  • Well, since rhyming's been my ruin, let me rhyme to the bitter end.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • He confessed to me that he was apt to go astray when intent on rhyme.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • It was ridiculous, the amount of time she gave to that baby—out of all rhyme and reason.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • You should get your gowns to rhyme with your husband's suits.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • In this lively style does he pursue his argument in favour of rhyme.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
  • For this it is which makes its adversaries say rhyme is not natural!
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
  • But do men not only light on a sudden upon the wit but the rhyme too?
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
  • Is rhyme unnatural from the lips of their peers and paladins?
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
  • The other reading (waen) is preferred on account of the rhyme.
  • Extract from : « Y Gododin » by Aneurin

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