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Caesura

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.

n. A pause or interruption, as in conversation: After another weighty caesura the senator resumed speaking.

n. In Latin and Greek prosody, a break in a line caused by the ending of a word within a foot, especially when this coincides with a sense division.

n. Music A pause or breathing at a point of rhythmic division in a melody.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art.

n. In Classical prosody, using two words to divide a metrical foot.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.

n. a pause or interruption (as in a conversation).

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. etc. See cesura, cesural, etc.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line

n. a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)

Word Usage

"Still, he remembers one space offering a welcome caesura from the ormolu and swag: the Blue Room, which the Count used as his personal sitting area."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

prosody inflection pause break interruption

Cross Reference

enjambment hemistich

Variant

caesurae

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

break pause lengthening comma

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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