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to rhyme with

to rhyme with

28 3.2
Share the same or similar last sound as another word
  • phrasal verb
  • /raɪm wɪð/
translation icon : rimar con
  • The word 'cat' rhymes with 'hat'.
  • words that rhyme with

Something that's up there that rhymes with koala.

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Examples

  • Pope rhymes with hope.

  • Vague is pronounced vague and rhymes with Craig.

  • No, it rhymes with you and do.

  • "Because it rhymes with sky," my mother said.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Cos it rhymes with "luck".

  • What's another word that rhymes with dimension?

  • The other group was told some of these words will rhyme with train, others won't.

  • I can't think of any word that rhymes with "colonel."

  • Beyond that, elementary school introduced me to a whole world of poems that rhymed with cat and bat.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Nothing rhymes with virgin.

Synonyms

to rime
vsto rhyme with
  • Archaic
1 9.9

To have the same ending sound as another word

is the common modern form rather than the older archaic variant

Surface Forms

rhyme with infinitive
rhymed with past participle
rhyming with present participle
rhymes with third person singular

Morphology

rhyme + with

The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'rhyme' (to share a similar ending sound) with the preposition 'with' (indicating relation to another item); together they transparently mean 'have the same or similar ending sound as'. This is a regular verb + preposition compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand it.

Etymology

The phrase rhyme with comes from the image of two words that end the same way. Think of the verb rhyme as the matching sound and with as the other word together, so rhyme with means 'to have the same ending sound'.