rhyme with

rhyme with (someone or something)

1. To have the same or similar sound as another word. Almost nothing in the English language rhymes with "orange." Despite its odd spelling, "pique" rhymes with "peak."
2. To think of, speak, or write a word that has the same or similar sound as another word. I thought it was rather clever rhyming "worth" with "dearth." It's a little lazy just rhyming "town" with "town" instead of using a different word.
See also: rhyme
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

rhyme something with something

[for someone] to make one word rhyme with another word. I need to rhyme tree with some other word. Any suggestions? Can I rhyme good with food?
See also: rhyme

rhyme with something

[for a word] to rhyme with another word. You can't use house in that line of the poem, because it doesn't rhyme with mice. The last word in your poem doesn't rhyme with any other word in the poem!
See also: rhyme
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • rhyme with (someone or something)
  • regs
  • jingler
  • Sexton Blake
  • donkey's ears
  • run one’s rhymes
  • run rhymes
  • ginger beer
  • Brahms and Liszt
  • half-inch
References in classic literature
"No; tell me really now whether lumiere does not rhyme with orniere ."
divertissement is called the 'Facheux?' Well, can you make heureux rhyme with facheux?
He said she would slap down a line, and if she couldn't find anything to rhyme with it would just scratch it out and slap down another one, and go ahead.
'Bender' rhymes with 'suspender', a reference to a 'suspended sentence' while 'carpet' is short for 'carpet bag', a rhyme with 'drag', a 19th century slang term for a 'three-month sentence' (origin unknown).
One person has created a fantastic map that illustrates the ongoing divide over the issue, tracking the spots where people say scone to rhyme with 'bone' and those who say scone to rhyme with 'gone'.
While the rondeau's rentrement does not rhyme with any other word in the poem, the roundel's rentrement does rhyme with the rest of the poem as an additional b-rhyme.
A YouGov survey found that 51% of the nation declared it should rhyme with gone, while 42% said it should rhyme with bone.
To explore this effect further, we isolated nonadjacent rhyming pairs: these are lines 3,4, and 12, which rhyme with lines 1, 2, and 9, respectively.
The Taipei School reconstructs absolutely CVC-structured roots, for example, the *-ag rime for the rhyme group of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], in order to fit the facts that this rhyme group could often rhyme with the rhyme group of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (*-ak), thus there is no open syllable in this lect (Li 1971).
I have heard from kindergarten parents that they are hearing the rhyme with actions each week at home.
Sometimes, the Spanish words rhyme with Spanish words; sometimes, Spanish and English rhyme, and sometimes, English rhymes with English.
Jane Sutton's DON'T CALL ME SIDNEY (9780803727533, $16.99) offers fun drawings by Renata Gallio as it tells of Sidney, who loves to write rhyming poems for his friends' birthdays until he realizes his own name doesn't rhyme with anything.
Only 36% of the parents surveyed regularly read nursery rhymes with their children, while almost a quarter admitted to having never sung a nursery rhyme with their child.
In a small group art project activity, children made "drip" art with repeated rhyme input: "Rip strips, clip strips, dip strips, grip strips, grip clips, grip strips, dip and drip, snip tips of strips, snip and tip and drip." In small group exploration of hands-on materials, children snapped air pockets in bubble wrap and wrapped up items that rhyme with ap: snap, snap, snap, wrap, wrap cap, wrap a snap, wrap, a map, wrap a strap (bottle caps, maps, snaps, straps).
Boys will appreciate Alexander Zane's WHEELS ON THE RACE CAR (0439590809, $14.95), following the chaotic action on an animal-driven racetrack which matches a classic rhyme with uncommon action.