rime

Speech parts

1. rime - Noun

2. rime - Verb

Meaning

A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor.

To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.

A step or round of a ladder; a rung.

Rhyme. See Rhyme.

To rhyme. See Rhyme.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

frost hoar hoarfrost rhyme frosting sonnet poesy song rift blight poetics cranny opening ice split
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Antonyms

world standard success headland understanding connection
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Hypernyms

ice match fit agree check correspond

Hyponyms

consonance tag alliteration alliterate assonate assonance

Phrases with the word

rime frost

Derivatives

rimed riming

Anagrams

emir mire reim Meir IMer Meri Remi riem

Examples

When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness. Thomas Hardy

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Charles Dickens

I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime. X. J. Kennedy

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime. Thomas Hood

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ye breed of the gouk, ye have not a rime but ane. Scottish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

rimbellisher Rimbey RIMCAS rime book rime dictionary rime frost