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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024gam•ut /ˈgæmət/USA pronunciation n. [countable* usually singular: the + ~ + of]- an entire range:the gamut of emotions, from grief to joy.
- Music and Dancethe whole series of recognized musical notes.
Idioms- run the gamut, to extend across an entire range:His emotions ran the gamut, from fear to joy.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gam•ut (gam′ət),USA pronunciation n. - the entire scale or range:the gamut of dramatic emotion from grief to joy.
- Music and Dance
- the whole series of recognized musical notes.
- the major scale.
- Medieval Latin; contraction of gamma ut, equivalent. to gamma, used to represent the first or lowest tone (German) in the medieval scale + ut (later do); the notes of the scale (ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si) being named from a Latin hymn to St. John the Baptist:Utqueant laxis re sonare fibris. Mi ra gestorum fa muli tuorum, Sol ve polluti la bii reatum, south, southern ancte I ohannes
- late Middle English 1425–75
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged sweep, breadth, scope, reach, extent, field.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: gamut /ˈgæmət/ n - entire range or scale, as of emotions
- a scale, esp (in medieval theory) one starting on the G on the bottom line of the bass staff
- the whole range of notes
- the range of chromaticities that can be obtained by mixing three colours
Etymology: 15th Century: from Medieval Latin, changed from gamma ut, from gamma, the lowest note of the hexachord as established by Guido d'Arezzo + ut (now, doh), the first of the notes of the scale ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, derived from a Latin hymn to St John: Ut queant laxis resonare fibris, Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labi reatum, Sancte Iohannes |