Definitions for caesura

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caesura cae·su·ra

Spelling: [si-zhoo r-uh, -zoo r

IPA: /sɪˈʒʊər ə, -ˈzʊər ə, sɪzˈyʊər ə/

Caesura is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 192 anagrams from letters in caesura (aacersu).

Definitions for caesura

noun

1. Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
2. Classical Prosody. a division made by the ending of a word within a foot, or sometimes at the end of a foot, especially in certain recognized places near the middle of a verse.
3. any break, pause, or interruption.

Origin of caesura

1550-60; Latin, equivalent to caes(us) cut (past participle of caedere) (caed- cut + -tus past participle suffix) + -ūra -ure

Examples for caesura

The caesura is an important, though not essential, element in Spanish verse.

The "Nibelungen" strophe consists of four long lines separated by a caesura into two distinct halves.

Unaccented extra syllables are found also before a caesura or at the end of the line.

Further, the caesura, where it occurs at all, may be masculine as well as feminine.

These different kinds of caesura strictly correspond to their French models.

Longer parts of a sentence may be separated both by the caesura and the pause at the end of the line.

I had no idea of caesura, my gestures destroyed its harmony, etc., etc.

This is a detail from "caesura" by Emily Henretta, on view now at Room East in New York.

This caesura, like the end of the line, may be either masculine or feminine.

For this reason it also occurs more frequently than the other kinds of caesura in the Modern English four-beat line.