rhythm
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rhythm /ˈrɪð(ə)m/
▶noun
- 1 a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound.
■ the systematic arrangement of musical sounds, according to duration and periodical stress.
■ a type of pattern formed by this.
■ a person's natural feeling for musical rhythm.
- 2 the measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the length of and stress on syllables.
- 3 a regularly recurring sequence of events or actions: the rhythms of the tides.
– derivatives
rhythmless adjective.
rhythmless adjective.
– origin C16 (also orig. in the sense ‘rhyme’): from Fr. rhythme, or via L. from Gk rhuthmos (rel. to rhein ‘to flow’).
'rhythm' also found in these Oxford entries:
ad-lib
- alpha rhythm
- arrhythmia
- beat
- bebop
- beta blocker
- beta rhythm
- breakbeat
- cabaletta
- cadence
- cadency
- calypso
- cha-cha
- compound time
- cross-rhythm
- dance
- defibrillation
- delta rhythm
- digoxin
- Dixieland
- doggerel
- double time
- duple
- dysrhythmia
- eurhythmics
- extrasystole
- foxtrot
- free verse
- funk
- funky
- garage
- heavy
- homophonic
- jazz
- lilt
- Macarena
- mambo
- mbalax
- measure
- measured
- mento
- metre
- oscillate
- ostinato
- plainsong
- poem
- polonaise
- pound
- prosody
- pulse
