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casement

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A window that opens on hinges, often with a frame; in poetry, it symbolizes an opening to the outside, a point of view, or the threshold between interior and exterior worlds.

Detailed Definition
In older literary English, a casement is a hinged window or the frame around it. Tennyson uses it to create a dim, inward scene as the dawn light enters slowly through the window.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The casement slowly grows a glimmering square,” makes a window a source of emerging light; Keats’s “magic casements” opens the word toward dream and distance; “At the casement, rain wrote silver lines,” uses the architectural term in visual imagery; “Her casement framed the ambulance lights below,” brings an older word into a contemporary city scene
Additional Notes
“casement” is an older, less common word for a window, and the line “The casement slowly grows a glimmering square;” may prompt readers to look it up.; Found in the poem, Tears, Idle Tears by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Other Meanings of “casement”
Also Known As
window frame aperture opening Window
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