CRESCENDO (crescendi)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crescendo mean?
• CRESCENDO (noun)
The noun CRESCENDO has 1 sense:
1. (music) a gradual increase in loudness
Familiarity information: CRESCENDO used as a noun is very rare.
• CRESCENDO (adjective)
The adjective CRESCENDO has 1 sense:
1. gradually increasing in volume
Familiarity information: CRESCENDO used as an adjective is very rare.
• CRESCENDO (verb)
The verb CRESCENDO has 1 sense:
1. grow louder
Familiarity information: CRESCENDO used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CRESCENDO (noun)
Meaning:
(music) a gradual increase in loudness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("crescendo" is a kind of...):
intensity; loudness; volume (the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction))
Domain category:
music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crescendo"):
swell (a crescendo followed by a decrescendo)
• CRESCENDO (adjective)
Meaning:
Gradually increasing in volume
Similar:
increasing (music)
• CRESCENDO (verb)
Meaning:
Grow louder
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The music crescendoes here
Hypernyms (to "crescendo" is one way to...):
increase (become bigger or greater in amount)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Antonym:
decrescendo (grow quieter)
