English noun: cadence |
1. | cadence (communication) (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse |
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| Synonyms | beat, measure, meter, metre |
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| Broader (hypernym) | poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | catalexis, common measure, common meter, foot, metrical foot, metrical unit, scansion |
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| Domain category | metrics, prosody |
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2. | cadence (communication) the close of a musical section |
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| Broader (hypernym) | musical passage, passage |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | amen cadence, plagal cadence |
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3. | cadence (attribute) a recurrent rhythmical series |
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| Synonyms | cadency |
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| Broader (hypernym) | rhythmicity |
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