Dictionary Entry
cadence
cadence is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or state of declining or sinking. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or state of declining or sinking.
- 2noun
A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence.
- 3noun
A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.
- 4noun
Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse.
- 5noun
See Cadency.
- 6noun
Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse.
- 7noun
A uniform time and place in marching.
- 8noun
The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.
- 9noun
A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
- 10transitive verb
To regulate by musical measure.
- 11noun
a recurrent rhythmical series
Synonyms
- 12noun
the close of a musical section
- 13noun
(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
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