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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. In a quick, lively tempo, usually considered to be faster than allegretto but slower than presto. Used chiefly as a direction.
  2. n. An allegro passage or movement.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In music, brisk or rapid.
  2. n. A brisk movement; a sprightly part or strain, the quickest except presto.
  3. Special varieties of movement or style are indicated by adding other terms: as, allegro agitato, quick and with agitation; allegro assai, very quick; allegro con brio or con fuoco, quick and with spirit or intensity; allegro con moto or allegro molto, with decided quickness; allegro vivace, quick and with vivacity; allegro giusto, quick, but with steady, even movement; allegro moderato, moderately quick; allegro ma non troppo, quick, but not excessively so.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a quick, lively tempo, faster than allegretto but slower than presto
  2. n. music In more traditional use, an expressive marking indicating lively or happily, not necessarily quick or fast.
  3. n. music A passage having this mark
  4. adv. music played in a quick, lively tempo
  5. adj. music describing a passage having this mark

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Mus.) Brisk, lively.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a brisk and lively tempo
  2. adv. in a quick and lively tempo
  3. adj. (of tempo) fast
  4. n. a musical composition or musical passage to be performed quickly in a brisk lively manner

Etymologies

  1. From Italian allegro. (Wiktionary)
  2. Italian, from Latin alacer, lively. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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