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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds);
[syn: rhyme, rime]

2. a piece of poetry;
[syn: verse, rhyme]


VERB (2)

1. compose rhymes;
[syn: rhyme, rime]

2. be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable;
- Example: "hat and cat rhyme"
[syn: rhyme, rime]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rhyme \Rhyme\, n. [OE. ryme, rime, AS. r[imac]m number; akin to OHG. r[imac]m number, succession, series, G. reim rhyme. The modern sense is due to the influence of F. rime, which is of German origin, and originally the same word.] [The Old English spelling rime is becoming again common. See Note under Prime.] 1. An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language. "Railing rhymes." --Daniel. [1913 Webster] A ryme I learned long ago. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rime. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Pros.) Correspondence of sound in the terminating words or syllables of two or more verses, one succeeding another immediately or at no great distance. The words or syllables so used must not begin with the same consonant, or if one begins with a vowel the other must begin with a consonant. The vowel sounds and accents must be the same, as also the sounds of the final consonants if there be any. [1913 Webster] For rhyme with reason may dispense, And sound has right to govern sense. --Prior. [1913 Webster] 3. Verses, usually two, having this correspondence with each other; a couplet; a poem containing rhymes. [1913 Webster] 4. A word answering in sound to another word. [1913 Webster] Female rhyme. See under Female. Male rhyme. See under Male. Rhyme or reason, sound or sense. Rhyme royal (Pros.), a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rhyme \Rhyme\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rhymed;p. pr. & vb. n. Rhyming.] [OE. rimen, rymen, AS. r[imac]man to count: cf. F. rimer to rhyme. See Rhyme, n.] 1. To make rhymes, or verses. "Thou shalt no longer ryme." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side, Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 2. To accord in rhyme or sound. [1913 Webster] And, if they rhymed and rattled, all was well. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rhyme \Rhyme\, v. t. 1. To put into rhyme. --Sir T. Wilson. [1913 Webster] 2. To influence by rhyme. [1913 Webster] Hearken to a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rhyme n 1: correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds) [syn: rhyme, rime] 2: a piece of poetry [syn: verse, rhyme] v 1: compose rhymes [syn: rhyme, rime] 2: be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme" [syn: rhyme, rime]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

138 Moby Thesaurus words for "rhyme": English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, accord, alba, alliterate, alliteration, anacreontic, assonance, assonate, balada, ballad, ballade, beat, blank verse, bucolic, cadence, cadency, canso, cap verses, chanson, check, chime, clerihew, clink, cohere, common sense, comport, conform, consist, consonance, consort, correspond, crambo, dingdong, dirge, dithyramb, double rhyme, dovetail, drone, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, eye rhyme, georgic, ghazel, haiku, harping, humdrum, idyll, intelligence, jingle, jingle-jangle, limerick, logic, lyric, madrigal, meaning, measure, meter, monody, monotone, monotony, musical thought, narrative poem, near rhyme, nursery rhyme, ode, organization, palinode, paronomasia, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, pitter-patter, poem, poesy, poetry, prothalamium, pun, rationale, rationality, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhyming dictionary, rime, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rune, satire, scan, sestina, single rhyme, singsong, slant rhyme, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, soundness, stale repetition, structure, swing, tail rhyme, tanka, tedium, tenso, tenzone, the supreme fiction, threnody, triolet, trot, troubadour poem, unnecessary repetition, unrhymed poetry, verse, verselet, versicle, versification, villanelle, virelay, wisdom