Phrase guide

sheet music

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Handwritten or printed form of musical notation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a musical composition in printed or written form

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • she turned the pages of the music as he played

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music

Narrower terms: lead sheet, piano music, score, musical score

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: musiekblad — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Southern Altai: партитура (partitura) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Arabic: وَرَقَة اَلْمُوسِيقَى — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Arabic: قِطْعَة مُوسِيقِيَّة — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Chinese Cantonese: 樂譜 /乐谱 (ngok6 pou2) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 樂譜 /乐谱 (yuèpǔ) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Czech: noty — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Czech: partitura — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Danish: noder — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Danish: nodeark — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Danish: nodeblad — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Danish: partitur — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Dutch: partituur — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Esperanto: partituro — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Estonian: noodilehed — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Finnish: nuotti — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Finnish: nuotit — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Finnish: partituuri — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • French: partition — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Georgian: პარტიტურა (ṗarṭiṭura) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Georgian: მუსიკალური ნოტები (musiḳaluri noṭebi) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • German: Noten — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • German: Musiknoten — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • German: Partitur — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Greek: παρτιτούρα (partitoúra) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Hungarian: kotta — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Irish: bileog cheoil — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Italian: spartito — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Japanese: 楽譜 (gakufu) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Korean: 악보 (akbo) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Polish: partytura — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Portuguese: partitura — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Russian: партиту́ра (partitúra) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Russian: но́ты (nóty) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Slovene: partitura — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Spanish: partitura — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Swedish: noter — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Swedish: partitur — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Tagalog: talatugtugan — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Tagalog: talaawitan — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Telugu: రాగము (rāgamu) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Thai: แผ่นโน้ตเพลง (phàen nôot phlaeng) — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Turkish: partisyon — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Vietnamese: tổng phổ — hand-written or printed form of musical notation
  • Welsh: cerddoriaeth — hand-written or printed form of musical notation