half rhyme

English

Noun

half rhyme (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.
    Synonym: slant rhyme
    Antonym: near rhyme
    Hypernym: rhyme
    Hyponym: pararhyme
    Coordinate terms: full rhyme, perfect rhyme
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