Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A pair of words (or syllables) that, because of their spelling, look as if they rhyme but, because of different pronunciation, do not. Many eye rhymes are historic rhymes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: sight rhyme
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an imperfect rhyme (e.g., `love' and `move')
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rhyme, rime
History
Compound of eye + rhyme.
