half rhyme

== English == === Noun === half rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural half rhymes) (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. Synonyms: near rhyme, quasi-rhyme, slant rhyme Antonyms: exact rhyme, full rhyme, perfect rhyme Hypernyms: imperfect rhyme; rhyme; concord Hyponym: pararhyme (countable) An instance of this form of rhyme.