rhyme

A word with the same ending sound as another word, or the matching sounds themselves.

• Can you find a rhyme for blue?
• The final words form a perfect rhyme.
• She uses unexpected rhymes in her songs.

How to use it: rhyme for something (I need a rhyme for light.)

Common phrases: rhyme for something, perfect rhyme, end rhyme

A short poem or song, especially one for children, with words that have matching ending sounds.

• She taught us a funny rhyme.
• The children recited their favorite rhymes.
• Do you remember that old nursery rhyme?

Similar words: poem, verse

Common phrases: nursery rhyme, children’s rhyme, simple rhyme

Poetry in which words at the ends of lines have matching sounds.

• The story is written in rhyme.
• She finds rhyme easier to remember than prose.
• He tells jokes in rhyme.

How to use it: in rhyme (The invitation was written in rhyme.)

Similar words: rhyming verse

Common phrases: in rhyme, write in rhyme

If words do this, their ending sounds are the same.

• Cat and hat rhyme.
• Does moon rhyme with spoon?
• The last words in each pair of lines rhymed.

How to use it: rhyme with something (Tree rhymes with sea.)

Common phrases: rhyme with something, words rhyme

To arrange or say words so their ending sounds match.

• Try to rhyme the final words.
• She rhymed night with light in her song.
• The rapper can rhyme almost any pair of words.

How to use it: rhyme something with something (He rhymed rain with pain.)

Similar words: versify

Common phrases: rhyme words, rhyme something with