Usually means: Rhythm, stress, and intonation patterns.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word prosody:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. prosody: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prosody: Merriam-Webster
  3. prosody, prosody: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prosody: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prosody: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prosody: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prosody, prosody: Wordnik
  8. prosody: Wiktionary
  9. prosody: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prosody: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prosody: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Prosody, prosody: Dictionary.com
  13. prosody: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Prosody (Greek), Prosody (Latin), Prosody (disambiguation), Prosody (linguistics), Prosody (music), Prosody (poetry), Prosody (software), Prosody: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Prosody: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. prosody: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. prosody: Rhymezone
  18. Prosody: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. prosody: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. prosody: FreeDictionary.org
  21. prosody: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. prosody: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prosody: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Prosody: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Prosody: Lexicon of Linguistics
  4. PROSODY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prosody: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prosody: Brain Injury

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prosody: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
noun:  (poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

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