English Explanatory Dictionary

perfect rhyme

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound.
  2. An instance of this form of rhyme.

Word forms

perfect rhyme perfect rhymes

Synonyms

full rhyme exact rhyme true rhyme

Antonyms

imperfect rhyme half rhyme quasi-rhyme near rhyme internal rhyme
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