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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.Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.
- 2.A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
- 3.A film or slimy coating.
- 4.Number.
- 5.Rhyme.
verb
- 1.To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
- 2.To compose or treat in verse; versify.
- 3.(followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end.
- 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.To number; count; reckon.
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