CADENCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A recurrent rhythmical series

Synonyms:

cadence; cadency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("cadence" is a kind of...):

rhythmicity (the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music)

Derivation:

cadent (marked by a rhythmical cadence)

Meaning:

The close of a musical section

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cadence" is a kind of...):

musical passage; passage (a short section of a musical composition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cadence"):

amen cadence; plagal cadence (a cadence (frequently ending church music) in which the chord of the subdominant precedes the chord of the tonic)

Meaning:

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Synonyms:

beat; cadence; measure; meter; metre

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cadence" is a kind of...):

poetic rhythm; prosody; rhythmic pattern ((prosody) a system of versification)

Domain category:

metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cadence"):

catalexis (the absence of a syllable in the last foot of a line or verse)

scansion (analysis of verse into metrical patterns)

common measure; common meter (the usual (iambic) meter of a ballad)

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