be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; "hat and cat rhyme"
If something happens or is done without rhyme or reason, there seems to be no logical reason for it to happen or be done. He picked people on a whim, without rhyme or reason. Type of echoing produced by the close placement of two or more words with similarly sounding final syllables. Rhyme is used in poetry (and occasionally in prose) to produce sounds that appeal to the ear and to unify and establish a poem's stanzaic form. End rhyme (i.e., rhyme used at the end of a line to echo the end of another line) is most common, but internal rhyme (occurring before the end of a line) is frequently used as an embellishment. Types of "true rhyme" include masculine rhyme, in which the two words end with the same vowel-consonant combination (stand/land); feminine rhyme (or double rhyme), in which two syllables rhyme (profession/discretion); and trisyllabic rhyme, in which three syllables rhyme (patinate/latinate)
If one word rhymes with another or if two words rhyme, they have a very similar sound. Words that rhyme with each other are often used in poems. June always rhymes with moon in old love songs. the sort of people who give their children names that rhyme: Donnie, Ronnie, Connie. a singer rhyming `eyes' with `realise'. rhymed couplets