Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun caesura

2 senses of caesura

Sense 1
caesura -- (a pause or interruption (as in a conversation); "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued")
       => pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension -- (a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something)

Sense 2
caesura -- (a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line)
       => prosody, inflection -- (the patterns of stress and intonation in a language)