English noun: prosody |
1. | prosody (communication) the patterns of stress and intonation in a language |
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| Synonyms | inflection |
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| Broader (hypernym) | delivery, manner of speaking, speech |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | accent, caesura, emphasis, enjambement, enjambment, intonation, modulation, pitch contour, rhythm, speech rhythm, stress |
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2. | prosody (communication) (prosody) a system of versification |
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| Synonyms | poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern |
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| Broader (hypernym) | versification |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | beat, cadence, measure, meter, metre, sprung rhythm |
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| Part meronym | poem, verse form |
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| Domain category | metrics, prosody |
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3. | prosody (cognition) the study of poetic meter and the art of versification |
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| Synonyms | metrics |
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| Broader (hypernym) | poetics |
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| Domain category members | acatalectic, Alexandrine, beat, cadence, catalectic, dactylic, foot, hypercatalectic, iambic, measure, measured, meter, metre, metric, metrical, metrical foot, metrical unit, poetic rhythm, prosody, rhythmic pattern, spondaic, trochaic |
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