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Meaning of caesura

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

caesura

Pronunciation:/sɪˈzjʊəɹə//sɪˈʒʊɹə/

noun

Definitions

  1. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.

  2. (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.

  3. The caesura mark ‖ or ||.

  4. A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins.