caesura
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)
after an ominous caesura the preacher continued
Types & categories
- pause hypernym
Related & opposite
- caesural derivation
Sense 2 noun
a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
Types & categories
- prosody hypernym
Related & opposite
- caesural derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | caesural |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | pause |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | caesural |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | prosody |