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# rhyme

«rhyme» in Mova's school dictionary: **the same, like "cat" and "hat", or "light" and "night"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a rhyme, rhymes); verb (rhyme, rhymes, rhymed, rhyming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Words rhyme when their ending sounds are the same, like "cat" and "hat", or "light" and "night". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/#m1)

2) A rhyme is a word that rhymes with another word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/#m2)

3) A short poem or song with rhyming words, like a nursery rhyme. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils find rhyming words, write rhyming poems and learn nursery rhymes. Rhyme helps people remember things, like "Thirty days hath September". Phrases: nursery rhyme, rhyme with, rhyming couplet, without rhyme or reason (with no sense at all).

### examples

- "Cat" rhymes with "hat". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/#x1)
- Can you think of a rhyme for "moon"? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/#x2)
- We learned a nursery rhyme about a spider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/#x3)
- Write a poem with words that rhyme. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/#x4)
- "Hey Diddle Diddle" is a funny old rhyme. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/#x5)
- The words "bear" and "chair" rhyme even though they are spelt differently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/#x6)
- Rhymes help little children learn to read. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/#x7)

### note

Spelling: "rhyme" has a silent h and a y. Rhyme is about sound, not spelling: "blue" and "shoe" rhyme; "cough" and "dough" do not. Homophone: "rime" is frost, a rare word. Not every poem has to rhyme. "Rhyme with": "Red rhymes with bed."

### In the corpora

- [Bots rhyme by sound and may not notice that a rhyme sounds rude or silly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/19/)
- [Jaguar turns it into a rhyme: «Can't curl, but can swim, Slow-Solid, that's him!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/82-justso-armadillos-1-painted-jaguar/24/)
- [Hedgehog and Tortoise know Jaguar will never forget his rhyme, so they decide to swap skills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/0/)
- [You learn it by ear, the way kids pick up a counting rhyme.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chinese-street/6-counting-one-to-ten/1/)
- [The old rhyme says «i before e except after c».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rhyme» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rhyme/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.