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CADENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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)
Sense 3
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)
