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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Music The seventh tone or degree of a scale that is a half tone below the tonic; a subtonic.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music scale degree seven when the first scale degree is one half step higher than the seventh scale degree

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale

Etymologies

  1. From its tendency to lead into or rise to the tonic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. tone
  1. musical note
  1. note

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  1. sensible note
  1. sensible
  1. b
  1. seventh
  1. si
  1. subtonic
  1. clarinet
  1. intonation

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