In the caesura of the pillow fight, my girlfriend took the opportunity to hit me with a table leg.
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Caesura
//sɪˈzjʊəɹə//
Synonyms for "caesura" (145 found)
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13 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 14 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- cezurë noun (a pause or interruption)
- cezurë noun (using two words to divide a metrical foot)
Catalan
1 entries- cesura noun (a pause or interruption)
Dutch
1 entries- cesuur noun (a pause or interruption)
Finnish
3 entries- kesuura noun (using two words to divide a metrical foot)
- tahtilepo noun (using two words to divide a metrical foot)
- tauko noun (a pause or interruption)
French
2 entries- césure noun (a pause or interruption)
- césure noun (using two words to divide a metrical foot)
German
2 entries- Zäsur noun (a pause or interruption)
- Zäsur noun (using two words to divide a metrical foot)
Hungarian
2 entries- cezúra noun (a pause or interruption)
- sormetszet noun (a pause or interruption)
Japanese
1 entries- 中間休止 noun (a pause or interruption)
Polish
3 entries- cezura noun (a pause or interruption)
- cezura noun (using two words to divide a metrical foot)
- średniówka noun (a pause or interruption)
Portuguese
2 entries- cesura noun (a pause or interruption)
- cesura noun (using two words to divide a metrical foot)
Russian
2 entries- цезу́ра noun (a pause or interruption)
- цезу́ра noun (using two words to divide a metrical foot)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- cezura noun (a pause or interruption)
- cezura noun (using two words to divide a metrical foot)
- цезура noun (a pause or interruption)
- цезура noun (using two words to divide a metrical foot)
Spanish
1 entries- cesura noun (a pause or interruption)
Swedish
1 entries- cesur noun (a pause or interruption)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.
Source: wiktionary
Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]
Source: wiktionary
We feel of this, as we feel of a great passage in “Hamlet” or “Lear,” that here is verse at once capable of the highest sublimity and capable of sustaining its theme, of lifting and lowering it at will, with endless resource in the slide and pause of the caesura, to carry it on and on.
Source: wiktionary
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