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contrafacts

contrafacts is the plural of contrafact.

Meaning of contrafact

Noun

contrafact (plural contrafacts)

  1. A new musical composition built out of an already existing one, most often a new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure. An important part of the development of bebop. Contrafacts are not to be confused with musical quotations, which borrow rhythms or melodies from an existing composition.

Questions about contrafacts

What is contrafacts the plural of?
Contrafacts is the plural of contrafact.

Words near contrafacts in the dictionary

  1. contraexpectation
  2. contraexpectational
  3. contrafact
  4. contrafacta
  5. contrafactive
  6. contrafacts
  7. contrafactual
  8. contrafactum
  9. contrafagotti
  10. contrafagotto
  11. contrafagottos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contrafacts (page history and authors); contrafact (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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