American English pronunciation
How to pronounce rhyming
IPA transcription: ['ɹaɪmɪŋ]
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Verb
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compose rhymes
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be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
“hat and cat rhyme”
Adjective
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having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds
“rhymed verse”
“rhyming words”
Usage examples
- Blowing a raspberry comes from the Cockney rhyming slang "raspberry tart" for "fart".
- American northerners persist in stressing the first syllable and rhyming the name with 'eagle'.
- Dorian Lynskey commented about the painful rhyming of "Sunday" with "I-don't-have-to-run day.
- Adding a rhyming couplet.
- He began rhyming as a form of escape.
- It was written in rhyming couplets of iambic heptameter.
- Cockney speakers have a distinctive accent and dialect, and occasionally use rhyming slang.
- Hardyng spent many years on the composition of a rhyming chronicle of England.
- The pantun is a four-lined verse consisting of alternating, roughly rhyming lines.
- Knocc Out, and Dresta, rhyming over his productions.