/
ˈrɪð(ə)m/
n.
- 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.
- the measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the length of and stress on syllables.
- a regularly recurring sequence of events or actions:
the rhythms of the tides.
Derivative
Etymology
C16 (also orig. in the sense ‘rhyme’): from Fr. rhythme, or via L. from Gk rhuthmos (rel. to rhein ‘to flow’).