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Caesura

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Noun

1. caesura

a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)

Example Sentences:
'after an ominous caesura the preacher continued'

2. caesura

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Caesura

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noun plural -ras or -rae (-riː)
1. 
(in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line
. Usual symbol: ||
2. 
(in classical prosody) a break between words within a metrical foot, usually in the third or fourth foot of the line

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Caesura

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nounWord forms: plural caeˈsuras or caeˈsurae (sɪˈzjʊri ; sizyoorˈē; sɪˈʒʊri ; sizhoorˈē)
1. 
a break or pause in a line of verse: in Greek and Latin verse, the caesura falls within the metrical foot; in English verse, it is usually about the middle of the line and is shown in scanning by the sign ∥
2.  Music
a break or pause in the meter of a composition

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Caesura

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n. pl. cae·su·ras or cae·su·rae (-zhrē, -zrē) also ce·su·ras or ce·su·rae
1. A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.
2. A pause or interruption, as in conversation: After another weighty caesura the senator resumed speaking.
3. 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.
4. Music A pause or breathing at a point of rhythmic division in a melody.

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