Prosody

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prosody \Pros"o*dy\, n. [L. prosodia the tone or accent of a
     syllable, Gr. ? a song sung to, or with, an accompanying
     song, the accent accompanying the pronunciation; ? to + ?
     song, ode: cf. F. prosodie. See {Ode}.]
     That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of
     syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or


     metrical composition.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prosody
       n 1: the patterns of stress and intonation in a language [syn: {inflection}]
       2: (prosody) a system of versification [syn: {poetic rhythm}, {rhythmic
          pattern}]
       3: the study of poetic meter and the art of versification [syn:
           {metrics}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "prosody":
     Stabreim, accent, accentuation, alliterative meter, beat, cadence,
     emphasis, ictus, level of stress, lilt, measure, meter,
     metrical pattern, metrics, movement, number, numbers,
     primary stress, prosodic pattern, prosodics, quantitative meter,
     rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, scanning, scansion,
     secondary stress, stress, stress accent, stress pattern, swing,
     syllabic meter, tertiary stress, vers libre, versification,
     weak stress