verb
Meaning 1
Create the emotional quality to be expected for something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
set the tone
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Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: de toon aangeven — Translations
- Dutch: de toon zetten — Translations
- Finnish: virittää tunnelma — Translations
- French: donner le ton — Translations
- French: donner le la — Translations
- Italian: dare il diapason — Translations
- Polish: nadawać ton — Translations
- Polish: nadać ton — Translations
- Russian: де́лать пого́ду (délatʹ pogódu) — Translations
- Swedish: sätta tonen — Translations
- Swedish: slå an tonen — Translations