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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fugue /fyug/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Music and Dancea musical composition with two or more voices.
fu•gal, adj. See -fug-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fugue (fyo̅o̅g),USA pronunciation n. - Music and Dancea polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
- Psychiatrya period during which a person suffers from loss of memory, often begins a new life, and, upon recovery, remembers nothing of the amnesic phase.
- Latin: flight
- Italian fuga
- French
- 1590–1600
fugue′like′, adj. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: fugue /fjuːɡ/ n - a musical form consisting essentially of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below the continuing first statement
- a dreamlike altered state of consciousness, lasting from a few hours to several days, during which a person loses his or her memory for his or her previous life and often wanders away from home
Etymology: 16th Century: from French, from Italian fuga, from Latin: a running away, flight |