PROSODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prosody mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROSODY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The patterns of stress and intonation in a language

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

inflection; prosody

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(prosody) a system of versification

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

poetic rhythm; prosody; rhythmic pattern

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)

Sense 3

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:

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

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)

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)

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