PROSODY

Pronunciation (US):

• PROSODY (noun)
  The noun PROSODY has 3 senses:

1. the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
2. (prosody) a system of versification
3. the study of poetic meter and the art of versification

  Familiarity information: PROSODY used as a noun is uncommon.

• PROSODY (noun)

Meaning:

The patterns of stress and intonation in a language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

prosody; inflection

Hypernyms ("prosody" is a kind of...):

delivery; manner of speaking; speech (your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prosody"):

intonation; modulation; pitch contour (rise and fall of the voice pitch)

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)

accent; emphasis; stress (the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch))

rhythm; speech rhythm (the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements)

Meaning:

(prosody) a system of versification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

poetic rhythm; rhythmic pattern; prosody

Hypernyms ("prosody" is a kind of...):

versification (the form or metrical composition of a poem)

Domain category:

metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prosody"):

beat; cadence; measure; meter; metre ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse)

sprung rhythm (a poetic rhythm that imitates the rhythm of speech)

Holonyms ("prosody" is a part of...):

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

Meaning:

The study of poetic meter and the art of versification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

metrics; prosody

Hypernyms ("prosody" is a kind of...):

poetics (study of poetic works)

Domain member category:

trochaic (of or consisting of trochees)

spondaic (of or consisting of spondees)

dactylic (of or consisting of dactyls)

iambic (of or consisting of iambs)

measured; metric; metrical (the rhythmic arrangement of syllables)

foot; metrical foot; metrical unit ((prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm)

beat; cadence; measure; meter; metre ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse)

poetic rhythm; prosody; rhythmic pattern ((prosody) a system of versification)

hypercatalectic ((prosody) a line of poetry having an extra syllable or syllables at the end of the last metrical foot)

catalectic ((prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot)

Alexandrine ((prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet)

acatalectic ((prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables)