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

  • adverb & adjective In a tempo variously construed as slightly faster or slower than andante. Used chiefly as a direction.
  • noun An andantino passage or movement.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In music, somewhat slower than andante.
  • noun Properly, a movement somewhat slower than andante, but more frequently a movement not quite so slow as andante.

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

  • adjective (Mus.) Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb music A tempo that is slighty faster than andante but slower than moderato.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective (of tempo) moderately fast

Etymologies

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

[Italian, diminutive of andante, andante; see andante.]

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From Italian andantino, the diminutive of andante.

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