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