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If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.
Jurgen Habermas

Meaning of "caesura" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CAESURA

From Latin, literally: a cutting, from caedere to cut.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CAESURA

caesura  [sɪˈzjʊərə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAESURA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Caesura is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CAESURA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Caesura

In meter, a caesura (/siːˈʒjʊərə/ or /sɪˈʒʊrə/ (Latin: caedere); alternative spellings are cæsura and cesura) is a complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition. The plural form of caesura is caesurae. In poetry, a masculine caesura follows a stressed syllable while a feminine caesura follows an unstressed syllable. A caesura is also described by its position in a line of poetry. A caesura close to the beginning of a line is called an initial caesura, one in the middle of a line is medial, and one near the end of a line is terminal. Initial and terminal caesurae were rare in formal, Romance, and Neoclassical verse, which preferred medial caesurae. In scansion, poetry written with signs to indicate the length and stress of syllables, the "double pipe" sign (" ") is used to denote the position of a caesura. In musical notation, a caesura denotes a brief, silent pause, during which metrical time is not counted. Similar to a silent fermata, caesurae are located between notes or measures (before or over bar lines), rather than on notes or rests (as with a fermata).

Definition of caesura in the English dictionary

The definition of caesura in the dictionary is a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line Usual symbol: ||. Other definition of caesura is a break between words within a metrical foot, usually in the third or fourth foot of the line.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CAESURA


allurer
əˈljʊərə
assurer
əˈʃʊərə
Bonaventura
ˌbɒnəvɛnˈtjʊərə
bravura
brəˈvjʊərə
caricatura
ˌkærɪkəˈtjʊərə
cesura
sɪˈzjʊərə
curer
ˈkjʊərə
datura
dəˈtjʊərə
dura
ˈdjʊərə
endurer
ɪnˈdjʊərə
insurer
ɪnˈʃʊərə
jura
ˈdʒʊərə
Madura
məˈdʊərə
manurer
məˈnjʊərə
natura
nəˈtʊərə
ophiura
ˌɒfɪˈjʊərə
pandura
pænˈdjʊərə
procurer
prəˈkjʊərə
securer
sɪˈkjʊərə
surah
ˈsʊərə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAESURA

caesaropapism
caese
caesious
caesium
caesium clock
caespitose
caespitosely
caestus
caesurae
caesural
caesuric

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAESURA

Angostura
aura
Buenaventura
Bujumbura
bura
Extremadura
Jayapura
Kamakura
katsura
Kura
laura
Mathura
Piura
purpura
shura
sura
tempura
Tripura
velatura
vettura

Synonyms and antonyms of caesura in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «caesura» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAESURA

Find out the translation of caesura to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of caesura from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «caesura» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

休止
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cesura
570 millions of speakers

English

caesura
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

यति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

انقطاع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

цезура
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cesura
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

césure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Caesura
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zäsur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

中間休止
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

행간의 휴지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Caesura
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chổ ngắt hơi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

caesura
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅशेरा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

durgu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cesura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cezura
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

цезура
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cezură
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

caesura
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pauze
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

klyvning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

caesura
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of caesura

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAESURA»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CAESURA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about caesura

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QUOTES WITH «CAESURA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word caesura.
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Jurgen Habermas
If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAESURA»

Discover the use of caesura in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to caesura and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Caesura
When he finds himself caught between his mother's needs and the needs for his own life, will he be able to resume the music or remain in the "Caesura?
Frank Hyle, 2011
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Two Papers: 'The Grid' and 'Caesura'
"The Grid" is an instrument devised by Bion to help the analyst record and elaborate observations arising from the analytic encounter.
Wilfred R. Bion, 1989
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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
In classical prosody, the caesura is strictly a metrical element, not an element of expression. 2. In modern prosody, a pause within a poetic line that breaks the regularity of the metrical pattern. The caesura sometimes is used to emphasize the ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1995
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Strict Metrical Tradition: Variations in the Literary Iambic ...
Just before the caesura, ft 2-3: 1 first ep; 1 m ionic; 7 fourth pn Right after the caesura, ft 4-5: 1 chor; 9 third ep; 1 first ep; 1 fourth pn Caesura after syllable 8 2 feet before the caesura, ft 1-2: 1 chor; 2 fourth pn Just before the caesura, ft 3-4: 3  ...
David Keppel-Jones, 2001
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Theological implications of the Shoah: caesura and continuum ...
The Shoah--the Hebrew term for Holocaust--has continued to pervade theological thought, religious practice, and the contemporary identity of Judaism.
Massimo Giuliani, 2002
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Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics
The. Caesura. of. the. Speculative. Alles schwebt. — Anton Webern The purpose of these remarks, extracted from work in progress, will be twofold. First, I would like to show — but this is scarcely a thesis, so evident is the point, fundamentally  ...
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Christopher Fynsk, 1998
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The Structure of Old Norse Dróttkvætt Poetry
Kuhn's Law of the Caesura and Syntactic Breaks in Dr6ttkvaett Lines As was shown in the preliminary discussion on word order in Chapter 1, the complexity of skaldic syntax continues to pose problems for editors and translators of drottkvcett ...
Kari Ellen Gade, 1995
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
When this “cut” occurs at the beginning of a line, it is called an “initial caesura”; when it occurs in the middle of a line, it is called a “medial caesura”; and when it occurs at the end of a line, it is called a “terminal caesura.” In OE poems such as  ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
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Poetry and Drama: Literary Terms and Concepts
A pause within a poetic line that breaks the regularity of the metrical pattern is called a caesura (cesura). It is represented in scansion by the sign ‖. The caesura sometimes is used to emphasize the formal metrical construction of a line, but it ...
Kathleen Kuiper, 2011
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A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools and Universities
The Caesura of the Foot is where a word ends in the middle of a foot ; e. g. in the first (dactyle) of | Mijyiv a- | uSe, and in the second (spondee) of | OvXopi- j vrtv ?j | -. This is the least important of all, and is without any influence of its own on the ...
Philipp Buttmann, 1833

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAESURA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term caesura is used in the context of the following news items.
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Review time! with San Hannibal
Schkade doesn't try to explain these people, either – there's a brief caesura where one character remembers her past as she tells Avery to ... «Comic Book Resources, Jul 15»
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Fire and Forget: Artists Respond to Modern Warfare
Žižek advocates a widening of the trench between the event of violence and the impartial gazer rather than the elimination of the caesura that has emerged. «ArtSlant, Jun 15»
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Audible Sculpture Replaces Harlem Watchtower Atop Marcus …
The sculpture, called "Caesura," will play an audio loop of bells ringing and clips of recorded speeches by Marcus Garvey that can be heard ... «DNAinfo, Jun 15»
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Editorial | A Time to Every Purpose
During this lovely caesura between its cash-cow seasons of being a college town and turning into a tourist town, Ithaca gets to be a nice ... «ithaca.com, Jun 15»
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Friday in Edinburgh – What's On Today
Caesura #32: since 2013 Caesura has been exploring the recesses of poetics, language and sound with a series of stripped-back events ... «The Edinburgh Reporter, Jun 15»
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Improvising genius: Shaken by the sounds of a visionary home …
In 2003 the same quartet were back in a London studio to record their second album, Caesura. The mournful opener Bloom's Blues revisits the empathetic ... «Morning Star Online, Jun 15»
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What's On in Edinburgh this week
Caesura #32: since 2013 Caesura has been exploring the recesses of poetics, language and sound with a series of stripped-back events ... «The Edinburgh Reporter, Jun 15»
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The cycle of birth, death and rebirth
But dying is just an interregnum, a caesura (a break in the flow of sound in a verse) in the long, long poem that we are. Rebirth. In spite of you ... «Inquirer.net, Jun 15»
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All-Star Concert To Celebrate 30 Years of Klein Competition
... David Requiro [now a professor at the University of Colorado] in 2006; and Tessa Lark [of the Trio Caesura] in 2008. And all three of them, ... «San Francisco Classical Voice, May 15»
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Art City Asks: William Zuback
I learned what a caesura was and even though it's for literature, I try to apply it to my photographs. There are quotes in the film that resonated ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 15»

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