caesura

caesura
Synonyms and related words:
Alexandrine, abeyance, accent, accentuation, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest, antispast, arsis, bacchius, beat, boundary, breach, break, cadence, catalexis, cease-fire, cessation, chloriamb, chloriambus, clearance, colon, comma, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, day off, diaeresis, dimeter, dipody, discontinuity, distance between, dochmiac, double space, drop, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, em space, emphasis, en space, epitrite, feminine caesura, fissure, foot, freeboard, gap, hair space, half space, heptameter, heptapody, heroic couplet, hesitation, hexameter, hexapody, hiatus, holiday, iamb, iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, interim, interlude, intermediate space, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, ionic, jingle, jump, juncture, lacuna, lapse, layoff, leap, leeway, letup, lilt, lull, margin, masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot, metrical group, metrical unit, metron, molossus, mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pause, pentameter, pentapody, period, point, proceleusmatic, pyrrhic, quantity, recess, remission, respite, rest, rhythm, room, semicolon, single space, space, space between, spondee, sprung rhythm, stand-down, stay, stop, stress, suspension, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetraseme, thesis, time interval, tribrach, trimeter, tripody, triseme, trochee, truce, vacation

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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Synonyms:
(in a verse),


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  • caesura — cae*su ra, n.; pl. E. {caesuras}, L. {C[ae]sur[ae]} [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See {Concise}.] A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • caesura — 1550s, from L. caesura, metrical pause, lit. a cutting, from pp. stem of cædere to cut down (see CEMENT (Cf. cement)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • caesura — [si zyoor′ə, sizhoor′ə] n. pl. caesuras or caesurae [si zyoor′ē, si zhoor′ē] [L, a cutting < pp. of caedere, to cut down: see CIDE] 1. a break or pause in a line of verse: in Greek and Latin verse, the caesura falls within the metrical foot;… …   English World dictionary

  • caesura — meaning ‘a cut or division’, is a term in prosody, both Classical and Old English, and refers to the division of a metrical foot between two words. In Old English (e.g. Beowulf) it is marked in print by an extra space between the words. In later… …   Modern English usage

  • caesura — ► NOUN 1) (in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot. 2) (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line. ORIGIN Latin, from caedere cut …   English terms dictionary

  • Caesura — For Helios album, see Caesura (album). An example of a caesura in modern western music notation. In meter, a caesura (alternative spellings are cæsura and cesura) is a complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition. The plural… …   Wikipedia

  • caesura — caesural, caesuric, adj. /si zhoor euh, zoor euh, siz yoor euh/, n., pl. caesuras, caesurae /si zhoor ee, zoor ee, siz yoor ee/. 1. Pros. a break, esp. a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical …   Universalium

  • caesura —   n. natural pause in verse line.    ♦ masculine caesura, one following stressed syllable of foot.    ♦ feminine caesura, one occurring in unstressed part of line.    ♦ caesural, a …   Dictionary of difficult words

  • caesura — noun (plural suras or caesurae) Etymology: Late Latin, from Latin, act of cutting, from caedere to cut Date: 1556 1. in modern prosody a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse 2 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • caesura — См. cesura …   Пятиязычный словарь лингвистических терминов

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