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-wave

-wave suffix: applied to various (often very specialised) music genres, subcultures and aesthetics.

Suffix

-wave

  1. Applied to various (often very specialised) music genres, subcultures and aesthetics.
    • chill + -wave → chillwave
    • dark + -wave → darkwave

Origin of -wave

Likely derived from new wave, and popularized by the terms chillwave and vaporwave.

Questions about -wave

What does -wave mean?
-wave means applied to various (often very specialised) music genres, subcultures and aesthetics.
What part of speech is -wave?
-wave is a suffix.

Words near -wave in the dictionary

  1. -ward
  2. -wards
  3. -ware
  4. -wares
  5. -wash
  6. -wave
  7. -way
  8. -ways
  9. -wear
  10. -wich
  11. -wick

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -wave (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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