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RHYME

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A piece of poetry

Synonyms:

rhyme; verse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rhyme" is a kind of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhyme"):

clerihew (a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person)

doggerel; doggerel verse; jingle (a comic verse of irregular measure)

limerick (a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba)

Derivation:

rhyme (compose rhymes)

rhymester (a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

Synonyms:

rhyme; rime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rhyme" is a kind of...):

versification (the form or metrical composition of a poem)

Domain member category:

assonant (having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhyme"):

internal rhyme (a rhyme between words in the same line)

alliteration; beginning rhyme; head rhyme; initial rhyme (use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse)

assonance; vowel rhyme (the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words)

consonance; consonant rhyme (the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words)

double rhyme (a two-syllable rhyme)

eye rhyme (an imperfect rhyme (e.g., 'love' and 'move'))

Holonyms ("rhyme" is a part of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Derivation:

rhyme (be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable)

rhymester (a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compose rhymes

Synonyms:

rhyme; rime

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "rhyme" is one way to...):

create verbally (create with or from words)

Domain category:

poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rhyme"):

tag (supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes)

alliterate (use alliteration as a form of poetry)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

rhyme (a piece of poetry)

rhymer (a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable

Example:

hat and cat rhyme

Synonyms:

rhyme; rime

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "rhyme" is one way to...):

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rhyme"):

assonate (correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

rhyme (correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds))

Credits

 Context examples: 

Rhyme and metre and structure were serious enough in themselves, but there was, over and beyond them, an intangible and evasive something that he caught in all great poetry, but which he could not catch and imprison in his own.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)