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Definition of 'prosody'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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)

Definition of 'prosody'

Princeton's WordNet

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

Definition of 'prosody'

Webster Dictionary

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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