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cadence
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cadence
n.
rhythm, beat, intonation, inflection
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Cadence
Cadence may refer to:
- Intonation (linguistics), the variation of pitch in speech.
- Speech tempo, the rate or speed at which a language is spoken
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cadence
Noun
1. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
(synonym) meter, metre, measure, beat
(hypernym) poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody
(hyponym) catalexis
(classification) prosody, metrics
2. the close of a musical section
(hypernym) passage, musical passage
(hyponym) plagal cadence, amen cadence
3. a recurrent rhythmical series
(synonym) cadency
(hypernym) rhythmicity
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cadence
nf.
rhythm, cadency
cadencé
adj.
lilting, swinging, in quick time
cadencer
v.
give rhythm
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cadence
n.
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