Words Like CAESURA
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to CAESURA.
    
    
    
        
            6 Alternative Words Similar to caesura
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        1 examples of caesura
           
        
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        after an ominous caesura the preacher continued
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of caesura
           
        
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        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 cæsural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.
    
    
    
 
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        a pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
    
    
    
 
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        a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
    
    
    
 
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        a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)
    
    
    
 
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        A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.
    
    
    
 
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        A pause or interruption, as in conversation:  After another weighty caesura the senator resumed speaking. 
    
    
    
 
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        In Latin and Greek prosody, a break in a line caused by the ending of a word within a foot, especially when this coincides with a sense division.
    
    
    
 
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        Music   A pause or breathing at a point of rhythmic division in a melody.
    
    
    
 
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        etc. See cesura, cesural, etc.
    
    
    
 
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        A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building or other work of art.