Synonyms for rhythm
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1. rhythmnoun

   Synonyms:
   meter, rhythm section, metre, prosody

2. rhythmnoun

   The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.

   Dance to the rhythm of the music.

   Synonyms:
   rhythm section, metre, prosody, meter

3. rhythmnoun

   A specifically defined pattern of such variation

   Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry

   Synonyms:
   meter, prosody, rhythm section, metre

4. rhythmnoun

   A flow, repetition or regularity.

   Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.

   Synonyms:
   metre, rhythm section, meter, prosody

5. rhythmnoun

   The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetetive event.

   We walked with a quick, even rhythm.

   Synonyms:
   metre, meter, rhythm section, prosody

6. rhythmnoun

   The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble

   The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm

   Synonyms:
   meter, rhythm section, metre, prosody

7. rhythmnoun

   A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process

   Synonyms:
   metre, rhythm section, prosody, meter

8. rhythmnoun

   Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates

   The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy

   Synonyms:
   meter, metre, rhythm section, prosody

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. rhythm

   Euphony is agreeable linguistic sound, however produced; meter, measure, and rhythm denote agreeable succession of sounds in the utterance of connected words; euphony may apply to a single word or even a single syllable; the other words apply to lines, sentences, paragraphs, etc.; rhythm and meter may be produced by accent only, as in English, or by accent and quantity combined, as in Greek or Italian; rhythm or measure may apply either to prose or to poetry, or to music, dancing, etc.; meter is more precise than rhythm, applies only to poetry, and denotes a measured rhythm with regular divisions into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc. A verse is strictly a metrical line, but the word is often used as synonymous with stanza. Verse, in the general sense, denotes metrical writing without reference to the thought involved; as, prose and verse. Compare MELODY; POETRY.

   Synonyms:
   euphony, measure, meter, verse

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 4 votes

1. rhythm, beat, musical rhythmnoun

   the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

   "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat"

   Synonyms:
   beatnik, speech rhythm, metre, pulse, calendar method of birth control, meter, heartbeat, pulsation, cycle, round, musical rhythm, measure, rhythm method of birth control, beat, regular recurrence, rhythm method, cadence, calendar method

2. rhythm, regular recurrencenoun

   recurring at regular intervals

   Synonyms:
   beat, musical rhythm, round, cycle, rhythm method, calendar method, calendar method of birth control, rhythm method of birth control, regular recurrence, speech rhythm

3. cycle, rhythm, roundnoun

   an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs

   "the never-ending cycle of the seasons"

   Synonyms:
   turn, cycles/second, speech rhythm, bout, cycle per second, calendar method of birth control, beat, stave, cycle, one shot, round of drinks, unit of ammunition, daily round, wheel, musical rhythm, circle, cps, round of golf, rhythm method of birth control, regular recurrence, oscillation, rhythm method, calendar method, hertz, rung, troll, bicycle, round, bike

4. rhythm, speech rhythmnoun

   the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements

   "the rhythm of Frost's poetry"

   Synonyms:
   beat, musical rhythm, round, cycle, rhythm method, calendar method, calendar method of birth control, rhythm method of birth control, regular recurrence, speech rhythm

5. rhythm method of birth control, rhythm method, rhythm, calendar method of birth control, calendar methodnoun

   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)

   Synonyms:
   round, musical rhythm, speech rhythm, rhythm method of birth control, cycle, rhythm method, calendar method, calendar method of birth control, beat, regular recurrence

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. rhythmnoun

   Synonyms:
   periodical emphasis, regular or melodious movement, harmonious flow

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "rhythm":

   pace, tempo, rate, melody, beat

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1. Hazrat Inayat Khan:

   We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.

2. Bianca Andreescu:

   She can literally redirect any single ball you give her, she can change the rhythm. I can change the rhythm too, but she’s on another level, at least today.

3. Andreas Bilicki:

   Doppel, as it stands, delivers two separate rhythms -- one high and one low. The high rhythm essentially delivers a rhythm which is higher than your resting heartbeat, and the lower one which is lower. And it works in a very similar way as to when you listen to upbeat or downbeat music. So, in the same way that upbeat music can excite you or bring you up, make you more alert; doppel does this. And it does the same thing with the downbeat tempo which you feel calming you down and even helping you into sleep.

4. Isadora Duncan:

   It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

5. Maurice Druon:

   Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.