rhyme also rime (r m)n. 1. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. 2. a. A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines. b. Poetry or verse of this kind. 3. A word that corresponds with another in terminal sound, as behold and cold. v. rhymed also rimed, rhym·ing also rim·ing, rhymes also rimes v.intr. 1. To form a rhyme. 2. To compose rhymes or verse. 3. To make use of rhymes in composing verse. v.tr. 1. To put into rhyme or compose with rhymes. 2. To use (a word or words) as a rhyme. [Alteration (influenced by rhythm) of Middle English rime, from Old French, of Germanic origin; see ar- in Indo-European roots.] |
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