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gamut

/ˈɡæm.ət/

gamut noun: a (normally) complete range.

Noun

gamut (plural gamuts)

  1. A (normally) complete range.
    • I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - -
      Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross...1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room
  2. All the notes in a musical scale.
  3. All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

gamut meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

gamut in Tamil

வண்ணக்களம்

gamut in Urdu

حلقہ دائرہ, سرگم

gamut in Bengali

সমগ্র পরিসর, ব্যাপ্তি, পূর্ণ পাল্লা

gamut in Malayalam

spectrum, range, span
പൂർണ്ണവ്യാപ്തി, പൂർണ്ണമേഖല, സർവ്വമാനം, സ്വരവിധാനമേഖല, സ്വരഗ്രാമം, സ്വരമേഖല
More languagesFewer languages
gamut in Kannada
ಇಡೀ ಹರಹು
gamut in Arabic
أَمْر بِرُمَتِه ʔamr birumatih, سُلَّمُ المُوسِيقَيّ sullamu l-mūsīqayy, سلسلة اللونية

Examples of gamut in a sentence

  • His life story goes the gamut, from poverty-stricken upbringing to colossal wealth.
  • His tastes in music run the gamut from classical to heavy metal.
  • Kugel recipes run the gamut from sweet to salty, soft to crisp, bland to sharp.

All 16 example sentences with gamut

Forms of gamut

pluralgamuts

Origin of gamut

1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.

Words formed from gamut

Phrases with gamut

Words that rhyme with gamut

Questions about gamut

What does gamut mean?
Gamut means a (normally) complete range.
What is gamut in Tamil?
Gamut in Tamil is வண்ணக்களம். See Gamut meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gamut?
Gamut is a noun.
How do you pronounce gamut?
Gamut is pronounced /ˈɡæm.ət/.
What is the plural of gamut?
The plural of gamut is gamuts.

Words near gamut in the dictionary

  1. gamsbart
  2. gamsbarts
  3. Gamston
  4. Gamu
  5. gamucha
  6. gamut
  7. gamuts
  8. gamy
  9. gamyness
  10. gan
  11. ganache

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gamut (page history and authors); gamut (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gamut (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Gamut (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gamut (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); gamut (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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