A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
/raim/ n. 1.
Either of two or more words which have identical nuclei in their stressed syllables and identical sequences of segments after these nuclei: bear/care; plate/berate; utter/butter; vision/collision; heinous/Coriolanus. True rhymes are divided into masculine and feminine rhymes. Rhymes with identical consonants preceding the rhyming nuclei are said to exhibit rich rhyme: line/ malign; team/steam. Homophones are sometimes said to exhibit identical rhyme: bare/bear. Cf. homeoteleuton. 2. (also rime, final, core) That part of a syllable consisting of the nucleus and the coda—in other words, the entire syllable except for the onset.
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