Rhymist vs Rhymest - What's the difference?
rhymist | rhymest |
One who rhymes
* 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets , J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 139,
(archaic) (rhyme)
(obsolete) Number.
(countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form)
A thought expressed in verse; a verse; a poem; a tale told in verse.
(countable) A word that rhymes with another.
# (countable, in particular) A word that rhymes with another, in that it is pronounced identically with the other word from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
(uncountable) Rhyming: sameness of sound of part of some words.
(countable, uncountable) Rhyming verse (poetic form).
(linguistics)
(obsolete) To number; count; reckon.
(ambitransitive) To compose or treat in verse; versify.
* 1742 , , The Dunciad , book 4, lines 101-102:
Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
(reciprocal) Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
To put words together so that they rhyme.
As a noun rhymist
is one who rhymes.As a verb rhymest is
(archaic) (rhyme).rhymist
English
Noun
(en noun)- "His character of Dryden, who sometimes visited him, was, that he was a good rhymist , but no poet."
rhymest
English
Verb
(head)rhyme
English
(wikipedia rhyme)Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- Many editors say they don't want stories written in rhyme .
- Tennyson’s rhymes
- Norse poetry is littered with rhymes''' like "'''s'''ól ... '''s unnan".
- Rap makes use of rhymes such as "money ... honey" and "nope ... dope".
- "Awake" is a rhyme for "lake".
- The poem exhibits a peculiar form of rhyme .
Hyponyms
* stave-rhyme, end rhyme * internal rhyme, cross rhyme * half rhyme, near rhyme: ** pararhyme, slant rhyme * full rhyme, perfect rhyme, exact rhyme, true rhymeDerived terms
* rhyme or reason * eye rhyme * female rhyme * male rhyme * rhyme royal * sight rhyme * nursery rhymeVerb
- There marched the bard and blockhead, side by side,
- Who rhymed for hire, and patronized for pride.
- "Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station".
- "Mug" and "rug" rhyme .
- "India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.
- I rewrote it to make it rhyme .