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7-letter words (1 found)

CADENCE,

6-letter words (3 found)

ACCEDE,ACCEND,DECANE,

5-letter words (6 found)

ACNED,CADEE,CANED,DANCE,DECAN,EANED,

4-letter words (14 found)

ACED,ACNE,ANCE,CADE,CANE,CECA,CEDE,DACE,DEAN,DEEN,DENE,ECAD,ECCE,NEED,

3-letter words (17 found)

ACE,AND,ANE,CAD,CAN,CEE,DAE,DAN,DEE,DEN,EAN,EEN,END,ENE,NAE,NED,NEE,

2-letter words (11 found)

AD,AE,AN,DA,DE,EA,ED,EE,EN,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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Definitions and meaning of cadence

cadence

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French cadence, from Old Italian cadenza (“conclusion of a phrase of music”), from Latin *cadentia (literally “a falling”), form of cadēns, the present participle of cadō (“I fall, I cease”). The Latin verb is inherited, via Proto-Italic *kadō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱad-e- (“to fall”, thematic present). Doublet of cadenza and chance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkeɪ.dn̩s/

Noun

cadence (countable and uncountable, plural cadences)

  1. The act or state of declining or sinking.
  2. The measure or beat of movement.
  3. Balanced, rhythmic flow.
  4. The general inflection or modulation of the voice, or of any sound.
  5. (music) A progression of at least two chords which conclude a piece of music, section or musical phrases within it. Sometimes referred to analogously as musical punctuation.
  6. (music) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy.
  7. (speech) A fall in inflection of a speaker’s voice, such as at the end of a sentence.
  8. (dance) A dance move which ends a phrase.
    The cadence in a galliard step refers to the final leap in a cinquepace sequence.
  9. (fencing) The rhythm and sequence of a series of actions.
  10. (running) The number of steps per minute.
  11. (cycling) The number of revolutions per minute of the cranks or pedals of a bicycle.
  12. (military) A chant that is sung by military personnel while running or marching; a jody call.
  13. (heraldry) Cadency.
  14. (horse-riding) Harmony and proportion of movement, as in a well-managed horse.
  15. (horseracing) The number of strides per second of a racehorse, measured when the same foot/hoof strikes the ground
  16. (software engineering) The frequency of regular product releases.

Synonyms

  • (musical conclusion): clausula

Derived terms

Related terms

  • cadaver

Translations

See also

  • Tierce de Picardie

Verb

cadence (third-person singular simple present cadences, present participle cadencing, simple past and past participle cadenced)

  1. (transitive) To give a cadence to.
  2. (transitive) To give structure to.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.dɑ̃s/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French cadence, borrowed from Italian cadenza. Doublet of chance.

Noun

cadence f (plural cadences)

  1. cadence
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

cadence

  1. inflection of cadencer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “cadence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org