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rhyme
Part of speech: NounThe correspondence of final sounds in two or more words, especially at the ends of poetic lines; a word that sounds like another; verse; or poetry, in which the last words of some of the lines correspond in sound; a group of lines of verse in which some or all of the last words correspond in sound; as, a Mother Goose rhyme.
Part of speech: VerbTo accord in sound; end in the same sound; make verses.
Part of speech: VerbTo make to correspond in sound; to put into, or express in, lines the finsal words of which correspond in sound.
Part of speech: NounRimer, rhymer.
Usage examples "rhyme":- On this day, many wore plane tree leaves, and would make a retort to the foregoing rhyme: " Plane tree leaves; The Church folk are thieves." - "Old Church Lore", William Andrews.
- Providence has a special gift of casting ruin at times broadcast, without, as far as we mortals can tell, any reason or rhyme. - "The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon", José Maria Gordon.
- Gretchen is a kind of a poet, makes rhymes, she does; makes fool rhyme with school, and such things as that. - "The Log School-House on the Columbia", Hezekiah Butterworth.