What does rime mean?
Definitions for rime
raɪmrime
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word rime.
Princeton's WordNet
frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rimenoun
ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
rhyme, rimeverb
correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
rhyme, rimeverb
be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable
"hat and cat rhyme"
rhyme, rimeverb
compose rhymes
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Rimenoun
Etymology: hrim , Saxon.
Breathing upon a glass giveth a dew; and in rime frosts you shall find drops of dew upon the inside of glass windows. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
In a hoar frost, a rime, is a multitude of quadrangular prisms piled without any order one over another. Nehemiah Grew.
Though birds have no epiglottis, yet can they contract the rime or chink of their larinx, so as to prevent the admission of wet or dry indigested. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
To Rimeverb
To freeze with hoar frost.
Etymology: from the noun.
ChatGPT
rime
Rime refers to a thin layer of ice that forms when water droplets in fog freeze upon contact with an object. It can also refer to the correspondence of sounds in the ending syllables of verses, particularly in poetry, also known as 'rhyme'.
Webster Dictionary
Rimenoun
a rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack
Rimenoun
white frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor
Rimeverb
to freeze or congeal into hoarfrost
Rimenoun
a step or round of a ladder; a rung
Rimenoun
rhyme. See Rhyme
Rime
to rhyme. See Rhyme
Etymology: [L. rima.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Rime
rīm, n. hoar-frost: frozen dew.—adj. Rī′my. [A.S. hrím; Dut. rijm, Ger. reif.]
Rime
rīm, n. a rent, chink, or fissure—also Rī′ma:—pl. Rī′mæ.—adj. Rīmose′, full of rimes or chinks: having numerous minute fissures, mostly parallel, like the bark of a tree.—n. Rimos′ity, state of being rimose or chinky.—adj. Rī′mous, rimose. [L. rima.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
rime
Hoar-frost; condensed vapour.
Suggested Resources
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
RIME
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rime is ranked #116829 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Rime surname appeared 149 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Rime.
93.2% or 139 total occurrences were White.
4% or 6 total occurrences were Black.
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Anagrams for rime »
imer
emir
riem
reim
remi
mire
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of rime in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of rime in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of rime in a Sentence
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU:
Philosopher, observer, scholar of our time; Original creator accepting no blunders, Emphasizing the gala of the pen, he ponders The tomes of literary jewels for life's rime!
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU:
“Philosopher, observer, scholar of our time; Original creator accepting no blunders, Emphasizing the gala of the pen, he ponders The tomes of literary jewels for life's rime!”
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- بَرَدArabic
- RaureifGerman
- πάχνηGreek
- escarchaSpanish
- huurreFinnish
- givreFrench
- liath-reòthadhScottish Gaelic
- zúzmaraHungarian
- եղյամArmenian
- brinaItalian
- 霜Japanese
- šerkšnas, šarmàLithuanian
- sarmaLatvian
- rijm, rijp, vriesdauw, dauwvorstDutch
- escarcha, geadaPortuguese
- brumăRomanian
- иней, изморозьRussian
- brymëAlbanian
- rimfrostSwedish
- kırağıTurkish
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