Usually means: Continuation of a sentence line.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word enjambment:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. enjambment: Merriam-Webster
  2. enjambment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enjambment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enjambment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enjambment: Vocabulary.com
  6. enjambment: Wiktionary
  7. enjambment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. enjambment: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. enjambment: Dictionary.com
  10. enjambment: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Enjambment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. enjambment: Rhymezone
  13. enjambment: FreeDictionary.org
  14. enjambment: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. enjambment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. enjambment: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ENJAMBMENT: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enjambment: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (enjambment)

▸ noun:  A technique in poetry whereby a sentence is carried over to the next line without pause.

Similar:
run-on sentence, fused sentence, enfilade, envelopment, interlacement, interlarding, seam, interweavement, overbridging, enframement, more...

Opposite:
end-stopped, caesura, pause, break

Adjectives:
frequent, strong, little, heavy, more, such, excessive, radical, necessary, stanzaic, poetic
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Similar:
run-on sentence, fused sentence, enfilade, envelopment, interlacement, interlarding, seam, interweavement, overbridging, enframement, more...

Opposite:
end-stopped, caesura, pause, break

Adjectives:
frequent, strong, little, heavy, more, such, excessive, radical, necessary, stanzaic, poetic



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