During my sabbatical, I composed a fugue and domesticated a robin.
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Fugue
//ˈfyɡ//
Synonyms for "fugue" (30 found)
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5 entriesTranslations
49 translations across 41 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- فُوغَا noun (piece of music)
- فُوغَا noun (piece of music)
Armenian
1 entries- ֆուգա noun (piece of music)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- fuqa noun (piece of music)
Belarusian
1 entries- фуга noun (piece of music)
Bulgarian
1 entries- фуга noun (piece of music)
Catalan
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 賦格 /赋格 noun (piece of music)
Czech
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Danish
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Dutch
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Esperanto
1 entries- fugo noun (piece of music)
Estonian
1 entries- fuuga noun (piece of music)
Finnish
1 entries- fuuga noun (piece of music)
French
1 entries- fugue noun (piece of music)
Friulian
1 entries- fughe noun (piece of music)
Georgian
1 entries- ფუგა noun (piece of music)
German
2 entries- Fuge noun (piece of music)
- Fuge noun (anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity)
Greek
3 entries- φούγκα noun (piece of music)
- φυγή noun (piece of music)
- φυγή noun (anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity)
Hebrew
1 entries- פוּגָה noun (piece of music)
Hungarian
1 entries- fúga noun (piece of music)
Icelandic
1 entries- fúga noun (piece of music)
Ido
1 entries- fugo noun (piece of music)
Italian
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Japanese
2 entries- フーガ noun (piece of music)
- 遁走曲 noun (piece of music)
Korean
1 entries- 푸가 noun (piece of music)
Latin
1 entries- contrāpunctus noun (piece of music)
Lithuanian
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Macedonian
1 entries- фуга noun (piece of music)
Occitan
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Persian
1 entries- فوگ noun (piece of music)
Polish
2 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
- fuga noun (anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity)
Portuguese
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Romanian
1 entries- fugă noun (piece of music)
Russian
2 entries- фу́га noun (piece of music)
- фу́га noun (anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity)
Slovak
1 entries- fúga noun (piece of music)
Slovene
2 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
- fuga noun (anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or complexity)
Spanish
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Swedish
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Turkish
1 entries- füg noun (piece of music)
Uzbek
1 entries- fuga noun (piece of music)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tẩu pháp noun (piece of music)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Christopher Shih's performance of Brahms's "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel" likely sealed his win in this international contest for amateurs.
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Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.
Source: wiktionary
And most of them women, and these only stayed in a fugue state for a relatively short time, like a couple of hours or a couple of days. As far as we know Malenov fugued for close to twenty years.
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