"half rhyme" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: half rhymes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} half rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural half rhymes)
  1. (uncountable) A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not. Tags: uncountable Synonyms: near rhyme, quasi-rhyme, slant rhyme
    Sense id: en-half_rhyme-en-noun-taMBmrgg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 11 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8
  2. (countable) An instance of this form of rhyme. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-half_rhyme-en-noun-LT~VyDCM

Inflected forms

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        "A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not."
      ],
      "id": "en-half_rhyme-en-noun-taMBmrgg",
      "links": [
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          "imperfect rhyme",
          "imperfect rhyme"
        ],
        [
          "coda",
          "coda"
        ]
      ],
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        "(uncountable) A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "near rhyme"
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        {
          "word": "quasi-rhyme"
        },
        {
          "word": "slant rhyme"
        }
      ],
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        "An instance of this form of rhyme."
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        "(countable) An instance of this form of rhyme."
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        "A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not."
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        "(uncountable) A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not."
      ],
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          "word": "near rhyme"
        },
        {
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        {
          "word": "slant rhyme"
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        "uncountable"
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    },
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      "glosses": [
        "An instance of this form of rhyme."
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        "(countable) An instance of this form of rhyme."
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