ENJAMBEMENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause

Synonyms:

enjambement; enjambment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("enjambement" is a kind of...):

inflection; prosody (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)

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