CAESURA (caesurae)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected form: caesurae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does caesura mean? 

• CAESURA (noun)
  The noun CAESURA has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: CAESURA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAESURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pause or interruption (as in a conversation)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

after an ominous caesura the preacher continued

Hypernyms ("caesura" is a kind of...):

break; intermission; interruption; pause; suspension (a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something)

Derivation:

caesural (of or relating to a caesura)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("caesura" is a kind of...):

inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)

Derivation:

caesural (of or relating to a caesura)