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RIMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does riming mean? 

RIMING (adjective)
  The adjective RIMING has 1 sense:

1. having corresponding sounds especially terminal soundsplay

  Familiarity information: RIMING used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RIMING (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds

Synonyms:

rhymed; rhyming; riming

Context example:

rhyming words

Similar:

alliterative (having the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable)

assonant (having the same vowel sound occurring with different consonants in successive words or stressed syllables)

end-rhymed (rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses)


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