Dictionary of prosody
1Cooperative Dictionary of the Rhinelandic Colloquial Language — The Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR), a public body of municipal self governance of the Rhineland in West of North Rhine Westphalia in Western Germany, runs a project they call Cooperative Dictionary of the Rhinelandic Colloquial Language, or… …
2Foot (prosody) — The foot is the basic metrical unit that generates a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry, including English accentual syllabic verse and the quantitative meter of classical ancient Greek and Latin poetry. The unit is composed of… …
3Diaeresis (prosody) — For other uses, see Diaeresis (disambiguation). In poetic meter, diaeresis (/daɪˈɛrɨ …
4gradus — gradus1 /gray deuhs/, n., pl. graduses. Music. a work consisting wholly or in part of exercises of increasing difficulty. [ < L: GRADE, step] gradus2 /gray deuhs/, n., pl. graduses. a dictionary of prosody, esp. one that gives word quantities and …
5gradus — [grā′dəs] n. [< L Gradus (ad Parnassum), lit., step (to Parnassus), title of a book on prosody] 1. a dictionary of prosody for help in writing Greek or Latin poetry 2. a book of piano studies, études, etc. arranged in a progressive order of… …
6gradus — n. Dictionary of prosody, prosodial dictionary …
7gra|dus — «GRAY duhs», noun. 1. a dictionary of prosody for aid in writing Latin or Greek verses. 2. Music. a work consisting of exercises of gradually increasing difficulty. ╂[short for Gradus ad Parnassum (literally) step to Parnassus, Latin title of a… …
8Gradus — Gra dus, n. [From L. gradus ad Parnassum a step to Parnassus.] A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry. [1913 Webster] He set to work . . . without gradus or other help. T. Hughes. [1913 Webster] …
9Gradus ad Parnassum — Latin, lit. A Step to Parnassus, mountain sacred to Apollo and the Muses, title of a dictionary of prosody used in English public schools for centuries as a guide to Roman poetry. The book dates from the 1680s …
10literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
