Meaning

noun ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

noun correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)

verb be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable

originThe noun is derived from Middle English rim, rime, rym, ryme (“hoar frost; rime”), from Old English hrīm (“frost”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīm (“rime; hoar frost”), from Proto-Germanic *hrīmą (North Germanic), *hrīmaz, *hrīmô (“rime; hoar frost”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to graze, touch; to streak”). The verb is derived from the noun. (The Old English equivalent, which did…

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