Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. All. Used chiefly as a direction to indicate that all performers are to take part.
- n. An ensemble of musicians, in contrast to a solist or group of solists, in a concerto.
- n. A passage of ensemble music intended to be executed by all the performers simultaneously.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In music, all the voices or instruments together; concerted: opposed to solo. In concertos the term is applied to passages in which the orchestra is used without the solo instrument. It is also loosely used of any loud concerted passage.
- n. A concerted movement or passage intended for or performed by all the voices or instruments together, or by most of them: opposed to solo.
Wiktionary
- adv. music All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices.
- n. music A passage in which all members of an orchestra are playing
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.) All; -- a direction for all the singers or players to perform together.
Etymologies
- From Italian tutti. (Wiktionary)
- Italian, pl. of tutto, all, from Vulgar Latin *tōttus, variant of Latin tōtus; see teutā- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Claudia Cardinale, l'attrice che ho sempre seguito in tutti i suoi drive-in theatre criminal l'enorme ammirazione per la sua bellezza ...”
“La Rocca di Pietore, situata né monti più aspri e confinante con paesi esteri, in tutti i tempi esposta all 'invasione dei nemici, con caratteri di Sangue ha dati segni infallibile della sua fede, e dimostrato che gli abitanti di quella, quanto più semplice e poveri di beni di fortuna, tanto più sonodotati di ardenza e prontezza a sagrificare sè stessi in servigio del principe loro; da che è sortito che sempre dalla Serenità Vostra sono stati con elementissimo occhio riguardati conservandoli in tutti i tempi illesi ed intalli quei privilegi che gli sono più delle pupille degli occhi cari, &c. &c. PRIMIERO.”
“tutti". however; sono tutti TERRONE. written by Guest, February 25, 2005”
“When one's hair can rise no further, a final statement of the gallop theme brings us to the closing phrases of the work, with a rocking-horse series of E-major and B-major chords, a last powerful descent of those noble trombones, and a rousing tutti flourish to crown the ending in triumph.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera
“Antiphon This is the wood of the cross – chant (tutti)”
“Psalm 118 This is the day the Lord has made – chant (tutti)”
“If corporations are people, guess who ends up as capo di tutti capi.”
“Così fan tutti, which, as I understand it, means "So do they all.”
The Wall Street Journal: Liberal Tax Dodgers and the Disrespected Sushi Chef
“The NI head, son of the capo di tutti capi, had many techniques for side-stepping the trickier questions.”
The Guardian: James Murdoch: never has one man known so little, and so often
“Everybody talked about it, everybody “was renewing”, everybody was trying to be like popes (tutti pontificavano) in the wake of sentimentalism, of eagerness to reform.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tutti’.
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The Whole Ball of Wax
Feel free to wax poetic.
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Learned
tutti, donnybrook, lambent, spiel, aberrant, asperity, abstruse, debauch, ebullient, Lebensraum, eschew, intersperse
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Music
musical terms
ritornello, tutti, rondo, polyphony, monody, monophony, homophony, leitmotif
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...another list...
I've no idea where I got this page full of words, but whatever it is, I want to find it again. May have duplicate words from other lists.
bicameral, aphelion, dirigible, parhelion, flocculus, vernier, corticate, oxalis, pandanus, calabash, plumbago, jonquil and 217 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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random
words I read but don't know
nascent, proxy, desultory, charlatan, churlish, emaciated, gaudy, shill, lurid, frisson, marauding, plunder and 610 more...
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kevincooper's Words
prosopopeia, lisle, magisterial, zeitgeist, zeugma, bloviate, apocryphal, bon mot, cacophony, euphony, brigandier, micturition and 313 more...
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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injurisch
infantil, frugal, semibekannt, goutieren, mittelminimal, eloquent, desodorieren, magnifik, amusisch, suggestibel, sostenuto, profund and 16 more...
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wrice1171's Words
fornicate, consent, fluent, banana, foster, creationism, bushit, scrotum, tweenie, tutti, queer, frontman and 3 more...
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words I remember first encountering
fetlock, artefact, quandary, asyndeton, chiasmus, enjambement, vehemently, vituperative, decorum, sable, scansion, diapason and 75 more...
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English doesn't have a word for it
angst, ennui, weltschmerz, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, ubermensch, laissez-faire, rendez-vous, naif, sashimi, picarro, pizzicato and 9 more...
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Musical Terms
Various terms, common and uncommon, relating to musical scores.
largo, andante, adagio, lento, moderato, allegro, vivace, presto, fermata, appoggiatura, acciaccatura, trill and 56 more...
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Art Words
Art, music, architecture, etc. words
tutti, segue, pulchritudinous, chaconne, bransle, coda, atonal, bitonality, hopak
Tweets
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