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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.

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.

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