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ENJAMBEMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does enjambement mean?
• ENJAMBEMENT (noun)
The noun ENJAMBEMENT has 1 sense:
1. the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
Familiarity information: ENJAMBEMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
enjambement; enjambment
Hypernyms ("enjambement" is a kind of...):
inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)
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