rhythm – English noun declension

English noun forms of rhythm

Noun: rhythm
Singularrhythm
Pluralrhythms

Sample Sentences

  • Dance to the rhythm of the music.
  • The audience clapped in rhythm as I sang.
  • Hicks is both thwarter and thwartee of Daedalean plots. Aboard a train, the rhythm of the wheels sounds to him like "wottachump, wottachump, wottachump." [2025 October 2, Dwight Garner, “Book Review: 'Shadow Ticket,' by Thomas Pynchon”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2025:]
  • Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry
  • Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.
  • Will this decision-making paralysis continue until Great British Railways has been established and settled into a new rhythm? If so, passengers on the West of England line are in for a rough ride, as the reliability of these tired old British Rail trains inevitably declines, and maintenance costs rise. [2026 February 18, Paul Clifton, “West of England Line problems laid bare”, in RAIL, page 7:]
  • We walked with a quick, even rhythm.
  • If you hum or whistle the rhythm of the common English metres,— of the decasyllabic quatrain, or the octosyllabic with alternate sexisyllabic, or other rhythms, […] [1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poetry and Imagination:]
  • Bigeminous rhythm was followed by bursts of extrasystoles. [1967, Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, New York:]
  • The Baroque term basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm
  • The rhythm of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife
  • The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy
  • That girl's got rhythm, watch her dance!
  • I'm never gonna dance again / Guilty feet have got no rhythm [1984, George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley, “Careless Whisper”:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ser-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *srew-
4. Proto-Indo-European *sru-dʰ-mo-s
5. Proto-Hellenic *hrutʰmós
6. Ancient Greek ῥῠθμός (rhŭthmós)bor.
7. Latin rhythmusder.
8. English rhythm
9. First coined in 1557, from Latin rhythmus, from Ancient Greek ῥυθμός (rhuthmós, “any measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”), from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow, run, stream, gush”). See: Latin Nouns 'rhythmus', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ῥυθμός'.