segue
/ˈsɛɡweɪ/
segue verb: to move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
Verb
segue (third-person singular simple present segues, present participle segueing, simple past and past participle segued)
- To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
- I can tell she’s going to segue from our conversation about school to the topic of marriage.
- Then, in a staggering display of empathy for the deceased lacking, this friend segues to the narcissist nub of the matter: "Omg wat if yu get arrested b4 yur bdai."2009 March 10, Rosie DiManno, “Murder reduced to infantile online postings”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2009
- Synonyms:
- transition
- To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.
- Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.
- To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.
Noun
segue (plural segues)
- An instance of segueing, a transition.
segue meaning in Tamil
segue in Tamil
- அறிமுகப் படலம்
Examples of segue in a sentence
- The Great Reset is going to be the segue from the pandemic.
- Segue into the hi-energy yet amorphous crisis-wracked Gay Liberation Front.
- Twenty years later, dissatisfied with the lack of foundation shades for women of color, she segued from catwalker to cosmetics entrepreneur, founding her eponymous line.
Synonyms of segue
Forms of segue
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | segues |
| present participle | segueing |
| past participle | segued |
| past | segued |
| alternative misspelling | segway |
| Noun | |
| plural | segues |
| alternative form | segué |
Origin of segue
Borrowed from Italian segue (“it follows”), from seguire (“to follow”), from Latin sequor; originally a term used in a musical score to indicate that the next movement or passage is to follow without a break. Cognate with Spanish seguir. Doublet of sue. Related to suit and sequence.
Words that rhyme with segue
Questions about segue
- What does segue mean?
- Segue means to move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
- What is segue in Tamil?
- Segue in Tamil is அறிமுகப் படலம். See Segue meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is segue?
- Segue can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce segue?
- Segue is pronounced /ˈsɛɡweɪ/.
- What is the past tense of segue?
- The past tense of segue is segued.
Words near segue in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: segue (page history and authors); segue (Tamil 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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