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Definitions: Adagio |
AdagioAdjective1. (of tempo) leisurely. Adverb1. (music) slowly; "here you must play adagio". Noun1. A musical composition played in adagio tempo (slowly and gracefully). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "adagio" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Slowness | Adverb: slowly; Adjective: leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at half speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace; in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings; haud passibus aequis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Adagio |
| English words defined with "adagio": Assai. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Adagio" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (adagio), Dutch (adagio), French (adagio), German (adagio, adagios), Hungarian (adagio), Italian (adage, adagio, slow), Romanian (adagio), Spanish (adage, adagio, proverb), Swedish (adagio). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ballet Adagio (1972) Adagio (1970) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Adagio" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Adagio" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.24% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.76% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "adagio": adagio-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adagio | 125 |
adagio for string | 43 |
adagio francisco hotel san | 14 |
hotel adagio | 13 |
adagio for string barber | 11 |
adagio albinoni | 11 |
adagio fabian lara | 8 |
adagio for string samuel barber | 8 |
adagio tea | 8 |
barber adagio | 8 |
adagio spa | 7 |
adagio apartment | 6 |
adagio duo | 6 |
adagio wamsutta | 5 |
adagio dance | 5 |
adagio inn | 4 |
adagio mp3 string | 3 |
adagio miscanthus | 3 |
acrobatic adagio | 3 |
adagio barber,samuel scandal school string | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "adagio"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | adagio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | адажио. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 慢板. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | adagio, langzaam (leasurely, slow, slowly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | اهسته وملایم , اجرای اهنگ باهستگی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | adagio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Adagio (adagios). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βραδύσ (largo, leisurely, lento, slack, slow, sluggish, tardy), βραδέωσ (leisurely, lento). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lassan (at a slow pace, easy, inchmeal, leisurely, slow, slowly, sullenly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | perlahan-lahan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | adagio (adage, slow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 緩徐曲 , アセンブリー工業 (adapter, adaptive, assemble, assembly industry, association, Atari, attach, attache case, attachment, attack, attacker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か"じょきょく, アダージョ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meillid (infirmity, lassitude, listlessness, scragginess, slowness, weakness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adagioay adágio (adage, maxim, proverb). (various references) adagio. (various references) адажио (adagios). (various references) adađo. (various references) adagio (adage, proverb). (various references) adagio. (various references) adaciyo, ağır olarak (massively). (various references) адажіо. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "adagio": adagios. (additional references) | |
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"Adagio" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adag, Adagia, Adalgar, Adalia, adamic, adaogio, adarga, addagio, Addai, Addaie, adiago, aditio, Ardawi, asagi, asagio, atagia, bahagi, dagio, Dxgiii, idago, Palagio, patagia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-o" | |
-2 letters: agio, dago, gadi, goad. | |
-3 letters: ado, aga, ago, aid, dag, dig, dog, gad, gid, goa, god. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, ag, ai, do, go, id, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-g-i-o" | |
+1 letter: adagios, agatoid. | |
+2 letters: diagonal, gladiola, gonadial. | |
+3 letters: audiogram, diagonals, gammadion, gladiator, gladiolas, gradation, indagator, radiogram. | |
+4 letters: abandoning, advocating, amygdaloid, analogized, audiograms, cardiogram, diagonally, dialogical, divagation, dogmatical, gladiators, gradations, graduation, indagation, indagators, jaguarondi, radiograms, radiograph. | |
+5 letters: aggradation, amygdaloids, antagonized, autoloading, braggadocio, cannonading, cardiograms, cardiograph, degradation, diagnosable, diagonalize, divagations, galactoside, gasconading, gradational, graduations, grandiflora, indagations, jaguarondis, pedagogical, radiographs, radiography, railroading, vagabonding, vagabondish, vagabondism. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 61 67 69 6F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. .- --. .. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01100001 01100111 01101001 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d a g i o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 0061 0067 0069 006F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357067737581 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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