[ˈrɪð(ə)m], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound
(e.g: Ruth listened to the rhythm of his breathing)

- the measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables
(e.g: the rhythm, pattern, and cadence of words)

- a regularly recurring sequence of events or processes
(e.g: the twice daily rhythms of the tides)


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Origin:
mid 16th century (also originally in the sense ‘rhyme’): from French rhythme, or via Latin from Greek rhuthmos (related to rhein ‘to flow’)