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noun
A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rhetoric
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noun
Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Classical
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences
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noun
The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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Synonyms: virgule
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noun
A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: prosody, inflection
noun
a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh2eyd-der. Proto-Italic *kaidō Latin caedō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh2? Latin -tūra Latin caesūra English caesura Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“to cut down, hew”).
Across languages
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
