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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In a very slow tempo. Used chiefly as a direction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In music, slowly; with deliberation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb (Mus.) Slowly; in slow time.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian, from lento, slow; see lento.]

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