Thesaurus: 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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Definitions
- n. That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
- n. the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
- n. (prosody) a system of versification
- n. the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
- That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
- That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables,of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
- n:100 n. the patterns of stress and intonation in a language n. the study of poetic meter and the art of versification