Allegro

Definitions: Allegro

Allegro

Adjective

1. (of tempo) fast.

Adverb

1. (music) in a quick and lively tempo; "play this section allegro".

Noun

1. A brisk and lively tempo.

2. A musical composition or passage performed quickly in a brisk lively manner.

Date "allegro" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1892. (references)

Etymology: Allegro \Al*le"gro\, adjective. [Italian expression, merry, gay, from the Latin expression alacer lively. Compare to Aleger.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Allegro

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Allegro The code name for the major Mac OS release due in mid-1998. (http://devworld.apple.com/mkt/informed/appledirections/mar97/roadmap.html). (1997-10-15). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Specialty Definition: Allegro

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Allegro is:

a direction in musical notation indicating that the music is to be played fast and lively. See tempo.
the Allegro Low Level Game Routines, a cross-platform computer game programming library.
a charter airline that operates both international and domestic flights from its base in Mexico City.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Allegro."

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Synonyms within Context: Allegro

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cheerfulness	Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Allegro

English words defined with "allegro": allegretto, allegro con spirito, Allegro moderato ♦ Piu, Poco, presto. (references)

Specialty definitions using "allegro": Common LISP in Parallel ♦ MACL, MMA ♦ Yale Haskell. (references)

Etymologies containing "allegro": Allegretto. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Allegro" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (allegro), Italian (allegro, blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, sportive, sprightly, sunny, wanton), Romanian (allegro), Swedish (allegro), Turkish (allegro).

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Modern Usage: Allegro

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

L' Allegro squadrone (1954)

Il Vedovo allegro (1949)

Johnny Allegro (1949)

L' Allegro fantasma (1941)

Allegro (1939)

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Commercial Usage: Allegro

Domain	Title
Books	Allegro (reference) Allegro Barbaro and Other Short Works for Solo Piano [UNABRIDGED] (reference) Allegro De Concierto, Capricho Espanol and Other Works for Solo Piano (reference) Allegro PC Library Release 2 (reference) Cisco Purchases IP VPN Acceleration Start-Up Allegro Systems [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Allegro (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Allegro Non Troppo (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Elgar: Introduction & Allegro for Strings (reference) Allegro (1947 Original Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Mirro Wearever Allegro 10-Inch Saute Pan with Lid (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
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Image Slideshow: Allegro

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Photo Album: Allegro

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Dugout house of Faro Caudill, homesteader with Mt. Allegro in the background, Pie Town, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Allegro

"Allegro" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.21% of the time. "Allegro" is used about 29 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)	86.21%	25	69,787
Noun (proper)	13.79%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	29	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Allegro

Expressions using "allegro": allegro con spirito ♦ Allegro moderato. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Allegro

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
allegro	922	allegro music	31
allegro resort	274	allegro aruba	31
allegro airline	262	allegro turks caicos	30
allegro hotel chicago	198	allegro playa dorada occidental	29
hotel allegro	192	allegro rv	27
allegro cozumel occidental	145	allegro chicago	24
allegro occidental punta cana	125	allegro occidental resort	24
allegro occidental	93	aereas allegro lineas	24
allegro motor home	84	allegro medical	22
ess allegro	79	allegro viewer	21
allegro pl	76	allegro aukcje	20
occidental allegro playacar	72	allegro driver ess	20
occidental allegro papagayo	64	allegro audio ess pci	20
allegro resort turks caicos	54	allegro papagayo	20
allegro microsystems	39	allegro bay	19
allegro air	38	allegro audio driver ess pci	19
allegro resort cozumel	37	allegro vacation club	18
allegro resort aruba	37	allegro resort playacar	18
cozumel allegro	34	allegro resort papagayo	18
allegro bus	33	allegro remote control	17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Allegro

Language		Translations for "allegro"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		алегро. (various references)

Farsi		نشاطانگیز, تندوباروح , باروح (Airy, Animate, Brisk, Fresh, Gaily, Lively, Peppery, Racy, Snappy, Spunky). (various references)

German		allegro. (various references)

Greek		γοργά (briskly, rapidly, swiftly). (various references)

Indonesian		alegro. (various references)

Italian		allegro (blithe, blithesome, breezy, bright, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, frisky, frolicsome, gay, hilarious, jocular, jolly, jovial, joyful, laughing, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, sportive, sprightly, sunny, wanton). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		アレカ椰子 (alexandrite, allegory, allegretto, allergen, allergy, alloc, allocate, allocation, aloe, aloha, aloha shirt, anchor, Anchorage, anchorman, ankh, anklet, areca palm, arrange, arrangement, arranger, arrow, hour, underground, underground money). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		アレグロ . (various references)

Manx		tappee (express, hasty, perfunctory, quick, quick-acting, rapid, speedy, swift). (various references)

Pig Latin		allegroay

Romanian		allegro. (various references)

Russian		аллегро (allegros). (various references)

Spanish		alegro (I rejoice). (various references)

Swedish		allegro. (various references)

Turkish		allegro. (various references)

Ukranian		алегро. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Allegro

Derivations
	Words beginning with "allegro": allegros. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Allegro" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alberro, alegra, alegret, alegro, Alero, Algeo, alleg, allegore, allegra, Allegre, allegrio, allegry, Allekto, allerg, allerge, allergo, Allerod, Allexr, Alligarh, ellerdor, Lavengro. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Allegro

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-l-o-r"
	-1 letter: galore, gaoler, loreal.
	-2 letters: algor, argle, argol, glare, goral, lager, large, largo, legal, loral, ogler, regal.
	-3 letters: aero, ager, aloe, earl, egal, ergo, gale, gall, gaol, gear, goal, goer, gore, leal, lear, loge, lore, ogle, ogre, olea, olla, oral, orle, rage, rale, real, role, roll.
	-4 letters: age, ago, ale, all, are, ear, ego, ell.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-l-o-r"
	+1 letter: allegory, allegros, bargello, galloper.
	+2 letters: bargellos, gallopers, organelle.
	+3 letters: allegories, allegorise, allegorist, allegorize, allegretto, florilegia, glomerular, legislator, neuroglial, organelles, pellagrous, prelogical, regionally.
	+4 letters: allegorical, allegorised, allegorises, allegorists, allegorized, allegorizer, allegorizes, allegrettos, allografted, gallerygoer, glamourless, glassblower, legislators, nonallergic, overcalling, reallotting, rheological, serological.
	+5 letters: allegorising, allegorizers, allegorizing, argillaceous, extralogical, forestalling, gallerygoers, geothermally, glassblowers, metrological, necrological, neurological, petrological, preallotting, profligately, reallocating, steamrolling, stranglehold, tetragonally.
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