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rime

The correct spelling is rime.

How to pronounce rime

noun

IPA: /ɹaɪm/

Say it like: Rim-e

The correct spelling is rime. Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface. For example: ""Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station"."

Usage Examples

"Creation" rhymes with "integration" and "station".

"India" and "windier" rhyme with each other in non-rhotic accents.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
  2. 2.A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
  3. 3.A film or slimy coating.
  4. 4.Number.
  5. 5.Rhyme.

verb

  1. 1.To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
  2. 2.To compose or treat in verse; versify.
  3. 3.(followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
  4. 4.Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each.
  5. 5.To number; count; reckon.

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