Meaning and Origin
What does the name Rhythm mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Rhythm
User Submitted Origins
Indian (Sanskrit)
38%
English
34%
Hindu
26%
Greek
3%
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Australia says the name Rhythm is of Czech origin and means "To repeat a sound".
- A user from India says the name Rhythm means "Taal. music pattern".
- According to a user from New Zealand, the name Rhythm means "Gift of God".
- According to a user from South Carolina, U.S., the name Rhythm means "Beautiful smart angel desperate for love".
International Interest
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Rhythm
Senses
- In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.
- [Mus] Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent.
- A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.
- The harmonious flow of vocal sounds.
Etymology: F. rhythme rythme, L. rhythmus, fr. Gr. ��� measured motion, measure, proportion, fr. "rei^n to flow. See Stream
Other Dictionary Sources
- 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)
- Recurring at regular intervals
- The arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements ("the rhythm of Frost's poetry")
- The basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music ("the piece has a fast rhythm")
- An interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
Wiktionary
First coined 1557, from Latin rhythmus, from Ancient Greek ῥυθμός (rhuthmós, “any measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”), from ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow, run, stream, gush”).
- 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 of the music.
- A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
- Most dances have a as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry
- A flow, repetition or regularity.
- Once you get the of it, the job will become easy.
- The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
- We walked with a quick, even .
- The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
- The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to
- A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
- The of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife
- 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 in motion pictures and theater comedy