Usually means: Partial correspondence of sounds, poetry.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. half rhyme: Merriam-Webster
  2. half rhyme: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. half-rhyme, half-rhyme: Collins English Dictionary
  4. half rhyme: Wiktionary
  5. half rhyme: Dictionary.com
  6. Half-rhyme, Half rhyme: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. half-rhyme, half rhyme: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HALF RHYME: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half rhyme: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (half rhyme)

noun:  (uncountable) A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.
noun:  (countable) An instance of this form of rhyme.

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