English noun: caesura | |||
1. | caesura (time) a pause or interruption (as in a conversation) | ||
Samples | After an ominous caesura the preacher continued. | ||
Broader (hypernym) | break, intermission, interruption, pause, suspension | ||
2. | caesura (communication) a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | ||
Broader (hypernym) | inflection, prosody | ||