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

• slag code
• slag off
• slagheap
• slain
• slake
• slaked
• slaked lime
• slalom
• slam
• slam dance
• slam dancing
• slam on
• slam-bang
• slam-dunk
• slammer
• slander
• slanderer
• unbalconied
• unbanded
• unbaptised
• unbaptized
• unbar
• unbarred
• unbarreled
• unbarrelled