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rhyming

Variant of rhyme

noun

  1. a piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds, esp. at the ends of lines
  2. such verse or poetry in general
  3. correspondence of sound between stressed syllables at the ends of words or lines of verse; specif., perfect rhyme (sense )
  4. a word that corresponds with another in sound, esp. end sound

intransitive verb rhymed, rhyming

  1. to make verse, esp. rhyming verse
  2. to form a rhyme: “more” rhymes with “door”
  3. to be composed in metrical form with rhymes
  4. to be in accord or agreement: the eyewitness accounts rhyme on the essential points

transitive verb

  1. to put into rhyme
  2. to compose in metrical form with rhymes
  3. to use as a rhyme or rhymes

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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