1. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation)
   "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued" 
2. A break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line

Derived forms: caesurae, caesuras

See also: caesural

Type of: break, inflection, intermission, interruption, pause, prosody, suspension

Encyclopedia: Caesura

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