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ENJAMBMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enjambment mean? 

ENJAMBMENT (noun)
  The noun ENJAMBMENT has 1 sense:

1. the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pauseplay

  Familiarity information: ENJAMBMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ENJAMBMENT (noun)


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 ("enjambment" is a kind of...):

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


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