Definitions for prosody

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prosody pros·o·dy

Spelling: [pros-uh-dee]

IPA: /ˈprɒs ə di/

Prosody is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in prosody (dooprsy).

Definitions for prosody

noun

1. the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
2. a particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification:
3. Linguistics. the stress and intonation patterns of an utterance.

Origin of prosody

1400-50; late Middle English Latin prosōdia Greek prosōidía tone or accent, modulation of voice, song sung to music, equivalent to prós toward + ōid(ḗ) ode + -ia

Examples for prosody

There is a river in Macedon and a river in Monmouth: in like manner there are positions in dancing and positions in prosody.

prosody, the song of angels, and no earthly or inglorious theme.

As Comparative Anatomy teaches what the sound of a cod-fish is; so prosody teaches what is the sound of syllables.

However—the prosody and Serpent lectures are just finishing off and then I shall come to see you in the morning!

Besides, there are a great many lines to be considered in the second part of prosody, which treats of Versification.

As there is in Arithmetic a long division and a short division, so in prosody is Quantity considered as long or short.

It is common for those that deliver the grammar of modern languages, to omit the prosody.

prosody deals with metre; and with accent, quantity and the articulate sounds, as subordinate to metre.

But we are not yet come to the prosody; nor shall we arrive there very soon unless we get on with the Syntax.

You are under no earthly obligation to Messrs. Syntax and prosody.