Definition of prosody Prosody
/pɹɑˈsʌdi/ - [prasudee] - pros•o•dy
We found 11 definitions of prosody from 6 different sources.
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What does prosody mean?
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NounPlural: prosodies |
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| prosody - the study of poetic meter and the art of versification | ||
| metrics | ||
| poetics study of poetic works | ||
| prosody - the patterns of stress and intonation in a language | ||
| inflection | ||
| manner of speaking, delivery, speech your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" | ||
| pitch contour, intonation, modulation the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations | ||
| caesura a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | ||
| enjambement, enjambment the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | ||
| emphasis, accent, stress special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. | ||
| prosody - (prosody) a system of versification | ||
| poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern | ||
| versification the art or practice of writing verse | ||
| poem, verse form a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines | ||
| metrics, prosody the study of poetic meter and the art of versification | ||
| cadence, metre, meter, measure, beat a recurrent rhythmical series | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- prosody (n.)
That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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prosody
The study of the rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. -
prosody
The study of the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech. -
prosody
The manner of associating syllables of a text to be sung to notes of a melody.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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prosody
pros′ō-di, n. that part of grammar which treats of quantity, accent, and the laws of verse or versification.—adjs. Prosō′dial, Prosod′ic, -al, pertaining to prosody: according to the rules of prosody.—ns. Prosō′dian, Pros′odist, one skilled in prosody.—adv. Prosod′ically. [Fr.,—L. prosōdia, Gr. prosōdia—pros, to, ōdē, a song.]
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🔤- prosody, noun, singular of prosodies.
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