American English pronunciation

How to pronounce rhyming

IPA transcription: ['ɹaɪmɪŋ]

Hear “rhyming” pronounced

['ɹaɪmɪŋ]

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['ɹaɪmɪŋ]

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['ɹaɪmɪŋ]

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Verb

  • compose rhymes

  • be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable

    “hat and cat rhyme”

Adjective

  • 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.