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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024syn•co•pa•tion /ˌsɪŋkəˈpeɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Music and Dancea shifting of a normal musical accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024syn•co•pa•tion (sing′kə pā′shən, sin′-),USA pronunciation n. - Music and Dancea shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
- Music and Dancesomething, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated.
- PoetryAlso called counterpoint, counterpoint rhythm. [Pros.]the use of rhetorical stress at variance with the metrical stress of a line of verse, as the stress on and and of in Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise/The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies.
- Phonetics[Gram.]syncope.
- Medieval Latin syncopātiōn- (stem of syncopātiō), equivalent. to Late Latin syncopāt(us) (see syncopate) + -iōn- -ion
- 1525–35
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: syncopation /ˌsɪŋkəˈpeɪʃən/ n - the displacement of the usual rhythmic accent away from a strong beat onto a weak beat
- a note, beat, rhythm, etc, produced by syncopation
- another word for syncope
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