"caesura" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /səˈʒʊɹə/ [US] Audio: en-us-caesura.ogg Forms: caesuras [plural], caesurae [plural]
Rhymes: -ʊəɹə Etymology: Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“I cut down, hew”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*kh₂eyd-}}, {{uder|en|la|caesūra||cutting, hewing}} Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|caesurae}} caesura (plural caesuras or caesurae)
  1. A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art. Translations (a pause or interruption): cezurë [feminine] (Albanian), cesura [feminine] (Catalan), cesuur (Dutch), tauko (Finnish), césure [feminine] (French), Zäsur [feminine] (German), cezúra (Hungarian), sormetszet (Hungarian), 中間休止 (chūkan kyūshi) (alt: ちゅうかんきゅうし) (Japanese), cezura [feminine] (Polish), średniówka [feminine] (Polish), cesura [feminine] (Portuguese), цезу́ра (cezúra) [feminine] (Russian), цезура [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), cezura [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), cesura [feminine] (Spanish), cesur [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-caesura-en-noun-en:pause Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 14 9 38 Disambiguation of 'a pause or interruption': 88 5 1 5
  2. (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot. Tags: Classical Categories (topical): Prosody Translations (using two words to divide a metrical foot): cezurë [feminine] (Albanian), kesuura (Finnish), tahtilepo (Finnish), césure [feminine] (French), Zäsur [feminine] (German), cezura [feminine] (Polish), cesura [feminine] (Portuguese), цезу́ра (cezúra) [feminine] (Russian), цезура [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), cezura [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-caesura-en-noun-8b~sduDA Disambiguation of Prosody: 25 35 17 24 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 14 9 38 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, prosody, sciences Disambiguation of 'using two words to divide a metrical foot': 1 98 0 1
  3. (typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||. Categories (topical): Typography Synonyms: virgule
    Sense id: en-caesura-en-noun-hAXwW8tW Topics: media, publishing, typography
  4. (rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-caesura-en-noun-moC3AAyo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Albanian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 14 9 38 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 29 23 5 43 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 29 22 7 41 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 26 18 5 37 6 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 14 4 41 5 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Albanian translations: 29 20 12 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 30 21 12 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 27 21 7 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 30 21 12 38 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 28 20 6 46 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 27 21 6 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 27 21 11 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 27 20 6 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 29 21 13 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 29 21 12 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 27 20 6 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 29 20 12 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 24 19 11 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 30 20 12 38
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cesura, cæsura [archaic] Derived forms: caesural, caesuraless, caesuric, feminine caesura, masculine caesura Related terms: enjambment, hemistich

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
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    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "en:Prosody"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "caesural"
    },
    {
      "word": "caesuraless"
    },
    {
      "word": "caesuric"
    },
    {
      "word": "feminine caesura"
    },
    {
      "word": "masculine caesura"
    }
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        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*kh₂eyd-"
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      "name": "root"
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "caesūra",
        "4": "",
        "5": "cutting, hewing"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“I cut down, hew”).",
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    {
      "form": "caesuras",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "caesurae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "enjambment"
    },
    {
      "word": "hemistich"
    }
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
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        {
          "ref": "1847, Thomas De Quincey, Milton Versus Southey and Landor:",
          "text": "The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table:",
          "text": "Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading:",
          "text": "We feel of this, as we feel of a great passage in “Hamlet” or “Lear,” that here is verse at once capable of the highest sublimity and capable of sustaining its theme, of lifting and lowering it at will, with endless resource in the slide and pause of the caesura, to carry it on and on.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, chapter 4, in John Howard, transl., Against the Grain, New York: Lieber & Lewis, translation of À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, pages 54–55:",
          "text": "He disliked the texture of those stiff verses, in their official garb, their abject reverence for grammar, their mechanical division by imperturbable cæsuras, always plugged at the end in the same way by the impact of a dactyl against a spondee.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art."
      ],
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        [
          "pause",
          "pause"
        ],
        [
          "interruption",
          "interruption"
        ],
        [
          "poem",
          "poem"
        ],
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "building",
          "building"
        ],
        [
          "other",
          "other"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "art",
          "art"
        ]
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "en:pause"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Using two words to divide a metrical foot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prosody",
          "prosody"
        ],
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          "metrical",
          "metrical"
        ],
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          "foot",
          "foot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "phonology",
        "prosody",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "en:Typography"
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      "glosses": [
        "The caesura mark ‖ or ||."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "typography",
          "typography"
        ],
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          "mark",
          "mark"
        ],
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          "‖",
          "‖"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "virgule"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "publishing",
        "typography"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1870, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nuits Blanches:",
          "text": "Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Stephen King, chapter 8, in Fairy Tale, page 133:",
          "text": "A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "turning point",
          "turning point"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/sɪˈzjʊəɹə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/səˈʒʊɹə/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ʊəɹə"
    }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cesura"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "cæsura"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cezurë"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cesura"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "word": "cesuur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "word": "tauko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "césure"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zäsur"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "word": "cezúra"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "word": "sormetszet"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ちゅうかんきゅうし",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chūkan kyūshi",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "word": "中間休止"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cezura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "średniówka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cesura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "cezúra",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цезу́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цезура"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cezura"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cesura"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a pause or interruption",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "cesur"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cezurë"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
      "word": "kesuura"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
      "word": "tahtilepo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "césure"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Zäsur"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cezura"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cesura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "cezúra",
      "sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цезу́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "цезура"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "using two words to divide a metrical foot",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cezura"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "caesura"
  ],
  "word": "caesura"
}

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