Definitions for codas

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codas co·da

Spelling: [koh-duh]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ də/

Codas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in codas (acdos).

Definitions for codas

noun

1. Music. a more or less independent passage, at the end of a composition, introduced to bring it to a satisfactory close.
2. Ballet. the concluding section of a ballet, especially the final part of a pas de deux.
3. a concluding section or part, especially one of a conventional form and serving as a summation of preceding themes, motifs, etc., as in a work of literature or drama.
4. anything that serves as a concluding part.
5. Phonetics. the segment of a syllable following the nucleus, as the d- sound in good. Compare core1 (def 14), onset (def 3).

Origin of codas

1745-55; Italian Latin cauda tail; cf. queue

Examples for codas

And then the joke in the last verse of watching Walter Cronkite deliver the coda.

He tapped for the coda with the touch of a king knighting an illustrious subject.

The film, opening on December 17, has turned out to be a coda to the man's incarceration.

It has also, sadly, turned out to be the coda for its director's career.

The third section is a varied repetition of the first with a coda.

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven't seen season five episode eight of  The Walking Dead, “coda”

It must be remembered that, as a point of structure, the existence of the coda is optional.

The coda, as in the other sonata, is simply a strong passage of climax.

He gets to the coda at last and takes it at a somewhat livelier pace.

The scene serves as the coda to The Last of the Unjust, and it ranks as one of the most splendid closing sequences in cinema.