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1. (n.) prosody
the science or study of poetic meters and versification.
2. prosody
a particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification:
Milton's prosody.
3. prosody
the stress and intonation patterns of an utterance.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME < L prosōdia < Gk prosōidía accent of a syllable, modulation of voice, song =pros- toward +ōid(ē)ode+-ia -y3)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) prosody, inflection
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
2. (noun) poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody
(prosody) a system of versification
3. (noun) prosody, metrics
the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
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| Definition of 'prosody' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) prosody
that part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition
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