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allegretto

allegretto adverb: to be played rather fast and lively.

Adverb

allegretto (not comparable)

  1. To be played rather fast and lively.

Noun

allegretto (plural allegrettos)

  1. A movement in this time.
    • It was only after the conception had received its fullest due, and the vast and complex organism its perfect development, that the certainty arose of an effect on human emotion comparable to that which was born when the opening bars of the allegretto in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony had been played...1880, Edmund Gurney, The Power of Sound, page 99

Forms of allegretto

pluralallegrettos

Origin of allegretto

Borrowed from Italian allegretto, diminutive form of allegro.

Questions about allegretto

What does allegretto mean?
Allegretto means to be played rather fast and lively.
What part of speech is allegretto?
Allegretto can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near allegretto in the dictionary

  1. allegorys
  2. Allegra
  3. Allegras
  4. Allegretti
  5. Allegrettis
  6. allegretto
  7. allegrettos
  8. allegrissimo
  9. allegro
  10. allegro ma non troppo
  11. allegro moderato

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