'Rhythm' definitions:
Definition of 'rhythm'
(from WordNet)
noun
The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" [syn: rhythm, beat, musical rhythm]
noun
Recurring at regular intervals [syn: rhythm, regular recurrence]
noun
An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs; "the never-ending cycle of the seasons" [syn: cycle, rhythm, round]
noun
The arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry" [syn: rhythm, speech rhythm]
noun
Natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur 14 days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from day 10 through day 18 of her cycle) [syn: rhythm method of birth control, rhythm method, rhythm, calendar method of birth control, calendar method]
Definition of 'Rhythm'
From: GCIDE
- Rhythm \Rhythm\, n. [F. rhythme, rythme, L. rhythmus, fr. Gr. ??? measured motion, measure, proportion, fr. "rei^n to flow. See Stream.]
- 1. In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mus.) Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent. --Moore (Encyc.) [1913 Webster]
- 3. A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The harmonious flow of vocal sounds. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rhythm'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accent,
- accentuation,
- Alexandrine,
- alternation,
- amphibrach,
- amphimacer,
- anacrusis,
- anapest,
- antispast,
- arrhythmia,
- arsis,
- bacchius,
- balance,
- beat,
- beating,
- beauty,
- cadence,
- cadency,
- caesura,
- catalexis,
- chloriamb,
- chloriambus,
- colon,
- concinnity,
- counterpoint,
- cretic,
- cyclicalness,
- dactyl,
- dactylic hexameter,
- diaeresis,
- dimeter,
- dipody,
- dochmiac,
- downbeat,
- drumming,
- elegiac,
- elegiac couplet,
- elegiac pentameter,
- emphasis,
- epitrite,
- equilibrium,
- euphony,
- feminine caesura,
- flutter,
- foot,
- harmony,
- heartbeat,
- heartthrob,
- heptameter,
- heptapody,
- heroic couplet,
- hexameter,
- hexapody,
- iamb,
- iambic,
- iambic pentameter,
- ictus,
- intermittence,
- intermittency,
- ionic,
- jingle,
- level of stress,
- lilt,
- masculine caesura,
- measure,
- measuredness,
- meter,
- metrical accent,
- metrical foot,
- metrical group,
- metrical unit,
- metrics,
- metron,
- molossus,
- mora,
- movement,
- number,
- numbers,
- order,
- orderedness,
- oscillation,
- paeon,
- palpitation,
- pendulum motion,
- pentameter,
- pentapody,
- period,
- periodicalness,
- periodicity,
- piston motion,
- pitapat,
- pitter-patter,
- primary stress,
- proceleusmatic,
- proportion,
- prosodics,
- prosody,
- pulsation,
- pulse,
- pyrrhic,
- quantity,
- rat-a-tat,
- rataplan,
- reappearance,
- recurrence,
- regular wave motion,
- reoccurrence,
- return,
- rhyme,
- rhythmic pattern,
- rhythmical stress,
- seasonality,
- secondary stress,
- spondee,
- sprung rhythm,
- staccato,
- stress,
- stress accent,
- stress pattern,
- sweetness,
- swing,
- symmetry,
- syzygy,
- tempo,
- tertiary stress,
- tetrameter,
- tetrapody,
- tetraseme,
- thesis,
- throb,
- throbbing,
- time,
- timing,
- tribrach,
- trimeter,
- tripody,
- triseme,
- trochee,
- undulation,
- upbeat,
- weak stress
Words containing 'Rhythm'
- Rhythming,
- alpha rhythm,
- beta rhythm,
- cantering rhythm,
- cardiac rhythm,
- circadian rhythm,
- delta rhythm,
- gallop rhythm,
- heart rhythm,
- musical rhythm,
- nodal rhythm,
- poetic rhythm,
- rhythm and blues,
- rhythm method,
- rhythm section,
- speech rhythm,
- sprung rhythm,
- theta rhythm,
- atrioventricular nodal rhythm,
- rhythm and blues musician,
- rhythm-and-blues,
- rhythm method of birth control