1 [C] a word that has the same sound or ends with the same sound as another word:
Can you think of a rhyme for 'beauty'?
2 [C] a short poem in which the last word in the line has the same sound as the last word in another line, especially the next one:
children's rhymes and stories
seealsoNURSERYRHYME
3 [U] the use of words in a poem or song that have the same sound, especially at the ends of lines:
a poem written in rhyme * the poet's use of rhyme * a poem with an unusual rhyme scheme * a poem without rhyme
IDIOMS
there's no rhyme or reason to / for sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for rhyme is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is rhyme a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rhyme is tagged as noun.
Does rhyme appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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