how to pronounce caesura

/ˈkɑɪsuɹə/

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caesura is pronounced in four syllables

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meanings of caesura

noun:

A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins.
The caesura mark ‖ or ||.

caesura frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word caesura occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics caesura can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that caesura can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;