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adagios

adagios is the plural of adagio.

Meaning of adagio

Noun

adagio (plural adagios)

  1. A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully.
  2. A passage having this mark.
  3. A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts.
    • We took a little walk. Part of the time her earrings banged against my chest and part of the time we did the splits in unison, like adadio dancers.1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, →ISBN, page 37

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Proper noun capitalized: Adagios

Adagios

  1. (plural) plural of Adagio

Questions about adagios

What is adagios the plural of?
Adagios is the plural of adagio.
What part of speech is adagios?
Adagios is a proper noun.

Words near adagios in the dictionary

  1. adagial
  2. adagies
  3. adagietto
  4. adagiettos
  5. adagio
  6. adagios
  7. adagissimo
  8. adagrasib
  9. adagy
  10. adah
  11. Adai

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adagios (page history and authors); Adagios (page history and authors); adagio (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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