'caesura' definitions:
Definition of 'caesura'
From: WordNet
noun
A pause or interruption (as in a conversation); "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued"
noun
A break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
Definition of 'caesura'
From: GCIDE
- caesura \cae*su"ra\, n.; pl. E. caesuras, L. C[ae]sur[ae] [L. caesura a cutting off, a division, stop, fr. caedere, caesum, to cut off. See Concise.] A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the c[ae]sural accent rests, or which is used as a foot. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In the following line the c[ae]sura is between study and of. [1913 Webster]
- The prop | er stud | y of | mankind | is man. [1913 Webster]
- 2. a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); as, after an ominous caesura the preacher continued. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'caesura'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abeyance,
- accent,
- accentuation,
- Alexandrine,
- amphibrach,
- amphimacer,
- anacrusis,
- anapest,
- antispast,
- arsis,
- bacchius,
- beat,
- boundary,
- breach,
- break,
- cadence,
- catalexis,
- cease-fire,
- cessation,
- chloriamb,
- chloriambus,
- clearance,
- colon,
- comma,
- counterpoint,
- cretic,
- dactyl,
- dactylic hexameter,
- day off,
- diaeresis,
- dimeter,
- dipody,
- discontinuity,
- distance between,
- dochmiac,
- double space,
- drop,
- elegiac,
- elegiac couplet,
- elegiac pentameter,
- em space,
- emphasis,
- en space,
- epitrite,
- feminine caesura,
- fissure,
- foot,
- freeboard,
- gap,
- hair space,
- half space,
- heptameter,
- heptapody,
- heroic couplet,
- hesitation,
- hexameter,
- hexapody,
- hiatus,
- holiday,
- iamb,
- iambic,
- iambic pentameter,
- ictus,
- interim,
- interlude,
- intermediate space,
- intermezzo,
- intermission,
- intermittence,
- interruption,
- interspace,
- interstice,
- interval,
- ionic,
- jingle,
- jump,
- juncture,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- layoff,
- leap,
- leeway,
- letup,
- lilt,
- lull,
- margin,
- masculine caesura,
- measure,
- meter,
- metrical accent,
- metrical foot,
- metrical group,
- metrical unit,
- metron,
- molossus,
- mora,
- movement,
- numbers,
- paeon,
- pause,
- pentameter,
- pentapody,
- period,
- point,
- proceleusmatic,
- pyrrhic,
- quantity,
- recess,
- remission,
- respite,
- rest,
- rhythm,
- room,
- semicolon,
- single space,
- space,
- space between,
- spondee,
- sprung rhythm,
- stand-down,
- stay,
- stop,
- stress,
- suspension,
- swing,
- syzygy,
- tetrameter,
- tetrapody,
- tetraseme,
- thesis,
- time interval,
- tribrach,
- trimeter,
- tripody,
- triseme,
- trochee,
- truce,
- vacation