Prosody (from the Greek, "prosösida": song or sung to music.)
- 1. The theory or practice of versification, poetry, the branch of knowledge that deals with the forms of metrical composition (poems and lyrics.)
- 2. Correct pronunciation or the study of pronunciation.
Source: Brown, Lesley (Editor-in-Chief), Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles – Sixth Edition. Volume 2, N-Z, Page 2375. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007.