The crotchets and quavers are dancing up and down the stave like little black boys on a fence.
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Crotchet
//ˈkɹɑt͡ʃ.ɪt//
Synonyms for "crotchet" (120 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (60)
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3 entriesderived
3 entrieshas context
4 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
34 translations across 30 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- четвъртина нота noun (musical note)
Catalan
1 entries- negra noun (musical note)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 四分音符 noun (musical note)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 四分音符 noun (musical note)
Danish
1 entries- fjerdedelsnode noun (musical note)
Dutch
1 entries- kwartnoot noun (musical note)
Finnish
1 entries- neljäsosanuotti noun (musical note)
French
1 entries- noire noun (musical note)
Galician
1 entries- negra noun (musical note)
German
1 entries- Viertelnote noun (musical note)
Greek
1 entries- τέταρτο noun (musical note)
Hungarian
1 entries- negyed noun (musical note)
Icelandic
2 entries- fjórðapartsnóta noun (musical note)
- fjórðipartur noun (musical note)
Irish
2 entries- ceathrú nóta noun (musical note)
- croisín noun (musical note)
Italian
1 entries- semiminima noun (musical note)
Japanese
1 entries- 四分音符 noun (musical note)
Kashubian
1 entries- czwiercnóta noun (musical note)
Korean
1 entries- 사분음표 noun (musical note)
Malay
1 entries- krocet noun (musical note)
Middle English
1 entries- crochet noun (musical note)
Māori
1 entries- orotahi noun (musical note)
Polish
1 entries- ćwierćnuta noun (musical note)
Portuguese
1 entries- semínima noun (musical note)
Russian
2 entries- че́тверть noun (musical note)
- четвертна́я но́та noun (musical note)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- punc dubh noun (musical note)
Slovene
1 entries- četrtinka noun (musical note)
Spanish
1 entries- negra noun (musical note)
Swedish
1 entries- fjärdedelsnot noun (musical note)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nốt đen noun (musical note)
Welsh
2 entries- crosied noun (musical note)
- crosiet noun (musical note)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Either Doctor Denman or an old Woman would have waited—but since the horrid death-doing Crotchet has been found out, & its use permitted—Oh! many & many a Life has been flung away.
Source: wiktionary
Thou who walkest in a vain shew, looking out with ornamental dilettante sniff and serene supremacy at all Life and all Death; and amblest jauntily; perking up thy poor talk into crotchets, thy poor conduct into fatuous somnambulisms; [...] dost thou call that "liberty!"
Source: wiktionary
He ruined himself and all that trusted in him by crotchets that he could never explain to any rational man.
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