English Explanatory Dictionary

half rhyme

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.
  2. An instance of this form of rhyme.

Word forms

half rhyme half rhymes

Synonyms

near rhyme quasi-rhyme slant rhyme

Antonyms

exact rhyme full rhyme perfect rhyme
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