Rhythm Word Meaning

mid 16th century (also originally in the sense ‘rhyme’): from French rhythme, or via Latin from Greek rhuthmos (related to rhein ‘to flow’)

a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound

strong, regular repeated pattern of movement

• Ruth listened to the rhythm of his breathing

the measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables

measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables

• the rhythm, pattern, and cadence of words
• limericks have a characteristic rhythm and rhyme scheme

a regularly recurring sequence of events or processes

regularly recurring sequence of events or processes

• the twice daily rhythms of the tides