Added 9 October 2026
rhyme
/ɹaɪm/ noun
Latin root: rhythmus Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about rhyme at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
verb
- To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- To place in such a way as to produce a rhyme or an approximation thereof.
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Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
Creation rhymes with integration and station.
Origin
From Middle English rim, rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; measure, meter, rhythm; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”), from Anglo-Norman rime, ryme (“identical letters or sounds in words from the vowel in their stressed syllables to their ends; song, verse, etc., with rhyming lines”) (modern French rime); further etymology uncertain, possibly either: * from Latin rhythmus (“rhythm”), from Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós, “measured motion, rhythm; regular, repeating motion, vibration”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow; a stream”); or * borrowed from Frankish *rīm (“number, order, sequence, serie.
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