cadence
cadence
nounDefinition of CADENCE
the recurrent pattern formed by a series of sounds having a regular rise and fall in intensity <the soothing cadence of the lecturer's voice nearly put me to sleep>
Related Words accent, accentuation, emphasis, stress; backbeat; drum, throb; lilt, movement, sway, swing; hexameter, pentameter, tetrameter, trimeter
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