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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Music The fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solfeggio.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In solmization, the syllable used for the fourth tone of the scale—that is, the subdominant. In the major scale of C this tone is F, which is therefore sometimes specifically called fa.
  2. To fall, in any sense.
  3. To have as one's lot or share; get; obtain.
  4. To claim; pretend to.
  5. n. Fall.
  6. n. Share; due.
  7. n. Lot; chance.
  8. n. An abbreviation of free of all average, a phrase used in marine-insurance policies. See average, n.
  9. To sound the fourth note of the scale in solmization: as, do, re, me, fa, sol (or soh), etc.
  10. n. An abbreviation of Free and Accepted Masons.
  11. n. An abbreviation of Fellow of the Antiquarian Society;
  12. n. of Fellow of the Society of Arts;
  13. n. of free alongside ship.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth note of a major scale.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.
  2. n. The tone F.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization

Etymologies

  1. From the first syllable of the Latin word famuli, extracted of the poem Mira gestorum famuli tuorum. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Medieval Latin; see gamut. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. solfa syllable

same context (47)

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  1. giorni
  2. fu
  3. sopra
  4. lume
  5. puo
  6. sol
  7. mentre
  8. quello
  9. porta
  1. nn
  2. Río
  3. gia
  4. tutto
  5. tra
  6. re
  7. molto
  8. sia
  9. prima
  1. chi
  2. saper
  3. Nelle
  4. è
  5. madre
  6. sono
  7. countree
  8. gaspe
  9. sel'
  1. Saul
  2. lowd
  3. Han
  4. makin'
  5. telt
  6. brither
  7. refrangible
  8. daylight
  9. tensioner
  1. tentacle-like
  2. battel
  3. pairt
  4. goodwife
  5. be-
  6. undulant
  7. amang
  8. now
  9. tentacular
  1. hoose
  2. date palm

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. solfeggiare
  2. ballet
  3. fa
  4. Falla
  5. f
  1. key
  2. sol-fa
  3. fayence
  4. intonate
  5. palissy faïence
  1. weary
  2. nonny
  3. scire facias
  4. staff-notation
  5. favourit
  1. fa-la
  2. ill-faurd
  3. Cody
  4. solmization
  5. solfeggio
  1. shape-note singing
  2. tonic sol-fa
  3. degree
  4. fieri facias
  5. fourth
  1. representative
  2. seventh
  3. ture-lure

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  1. solfege
  1. music

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