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Definition of "mora" [‖Mor•a•mo•ra•‖Mo]

  • The minimal unit of metrical time in quantitative verse, equal to the short syllable. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "mora" in a sentence
  • "Are we really using the term mora for writing systems now?"
  • "I'm not a linguist, but I thought the term mora had more or less been restricted to the phonological elements of a spoken language, rather than to writing systems."
  • "But there is a grave periculum in mora [danger in delay]."