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CAESURA
Definition of CAESURA
noun
A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
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Other senses
CAESURA carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A pause in a line of verse dictated by sense or natural speech rhythm rather than by metrics.
noun
A pause or interruption, as in conversation.
“After another weighty caesura the senator resumed speaking.”
noun
In Latin and Greek prosody, a break in a line caused by the ending of a word within a foot, especially when this coincides with a sense division.
noun
A pause or breathing at a point of rhythmic division in a melody.
Where it comes from
Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“to cut down, hew”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,861)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CAESURA · 7 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CAESURA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 52 boards so far. 95 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 12, 1 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 12, 1 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CAESURA starts with C and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AACERSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of CAESURA. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start CAESUR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 12
Could you have found CAESURA?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 12 - and most players walked straight past it.
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