"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. An 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: countable, uncountable Synonyms: imperfect rhyme, slant rhyme
    Sense id: en-half_rhyme-en-noun-04rJF5tM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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