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undertunes

undertunes is the plural of undertune.

Meaning of undertune

Noun

undertune (plural undertunes)

  1. An underlying or background tune.
    • Down below, the rasping sound of rough salt rubbed on rough flesh sounded like the whirring of a grindstone — a steady undertune to the "click-nick" of the knives in the pen; […]1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

Questions about undertunes

What is undertunes the plural of?
Undertunes is the plural of undertune.

Words near undertunes in the dictionary

  1. undertrumped
  2. undertrumping
  3. undertrumps
  4. undertubulation
  5. undertune
  6. undertunes
  7. undertunic
  8. undertunics
  9. underturn
  10. underturned
  11. underturning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undertunes (page history and authors); undertune (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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