name
Meaning 1
A female given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sonata
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
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/səˈnɑːtə/
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rhymes with -ɑːtə
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obsolete: /soʊˈneɪtə/
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CMU ARPABET: S AH0 N AA1 T AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A musical composition for one or a few instruments, one of which is frequently a piano, in three or four movements that vary in key and tempo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 3
a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: classical music, classical, serious music
Narrower terms: piano sonata, sonatina, symphony, symphonic music
History
Etymology
From Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin sonāre (“to make sound”). Doublet of sounded.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: sonate — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Chinese Mandarin: 奏鳴曲 /奏鸣曲 (zòumíngqǔ) — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Czech: sonáta — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Danish: sonate — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Dutch: sonate — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Esperanto: sonato — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Estonian: sonaat — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Finnish: sonaatti — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- French: sonate — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- German: Sonate — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Hawaiian: puolo hui puhi ʻohe — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Hindi: सोनाटा (sonāṭā) — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Hungarian: szonáta — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Icelandic: sónata — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Indonesian: sonata — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Irish: sonáid — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Italian: sonata — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Japanese: ソナタ (sonata) — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Japanese: 奏鳴曲 (sōmeikyoku) — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Korean: 소나타 (sonata) — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Macedonian: сона́та (sonáta) — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Norwegian Bokmål: sonate — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sonate — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Persian: سونات (sonât) — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Polish: sonata — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Portuguese: sonata — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Romanian: sonată — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Russian: сона́та (sonáta) — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Spanish: sonata — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Swedish: sonat — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Tagalog: sonata — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Turkish: sonat — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Tuvan: соната (sonata) — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
- Yakut: соната (sonata) — a musical composition for one or a few instruments
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