Oxford Rhyming Dictionary

by Clive Upton (editor), Eben Upton (Editor)

Comprehensive and completely up to date, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary is the ultimate rhymer's companion. An ideal reference tool for songwriters, poets, copywriters, and lyricists, and useful for students and teachers in the classroom, it offers over 85,000 words offering the best possible
chance of finding even the most elusive rhyme.

This dictionary is simple and straightforward to you locate the word you need in the index, and are referred to the place in the main text where you will find the words that rhyme with it. Browse a little further and you will also find, near by, close rhymes and half rhymes for the word in
question. Words are organized according to their sound rather than alphabetically, which means you can find a rhyme to match a word as it is spoken, rather than how it is spelt.

Whether you're in search of a gluey Drambuie, pastrami with tsunami, or a Salt Lake City subcommittee, this dictionary will help to increase your vocabulary and will take your rhyming skills to a whole new level.

Genres: Reference

672 pages, Hardcover

First published October 21, 2004

Reviews

[Kimberly Bower MLIS (gladeslibrarian) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was participating in National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) so I needed resources such as this title. What I found was 85,000 words of which I would never consider at least 84,600 (just guessing here!) to be useful for the average non-professional poet. If you're waxing poetic in formal language without seeking words that would be known to the average reader, this might work for you. Also, the system of finding words that rhyme with the word you look up takes a little getting used to. As stated in the preface, "the ordering of the numbers is sequential before each full stop, so that, for example, 1.9.16 comes before 1.23 and after 1.4.6". Not impossible to deal with, just awkward until you get used to it.

Rather than this title, I highly recommend The New Comprehensive American Rhyming Dictionary. Want something that ends with the sound of "at"? Just look up "at" and you'll find a more useful selection of rhyming words.

[Adrian · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is an exact rhyme for orange.