Twitter Google Share on Facebook couplet (redirected fromRhyming couplets) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia cou·plet (kŭp′lĭt) n. 1.A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit. ...
Rhyming couplets are a pair of consecutive lines where the last word in each line rhymes with the last word of the next. William Shakespeare used this rhyme scheme often, as you’ll see in this famous example below: Excerpt from Macbeth by William Shakespeare Double, double t...
verbPresent participle ofrhyme. from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. adjectivehaving corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds Etymologies Sorry, no etymologies found. Support Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the wordrhyming....
Two lines of rhymed verse in the same meter. In a closed couplet the meaning is complete. Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
slang in which a word is replaced by another word or phrase that rhymes with it; for example,apples and pearsmeaningstairs Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 ...
2.(Poetry) a rhyme between two words that are pronounced the same although differing in meaning, as inbough/bow Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 ...