end-stopped

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(end′stopt′)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
end-stopped  (end′stopt′),USA pronunciation adj. [Pros.]
  1. Poetry(of a line of verse) ending at the end of a syntactic unit that is usually followed by a pause in speaking and a punctuation mark in writing.
  • 1875–80

'end-stopped' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
closed couplet

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