Synonyms for "ragtime" (58 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (12)

acid rockandanteandante tempoavant-garde jazzballroom musicbeatbebopboogie woogieboogie-woogiebopcompound timecountry rock

Strong matches (17)

dancedance musicdancesduple timefolk rockhard rockhothot jazzjazzjazzed upjazzyjivelargomainstream jazzmarch tempomixed timesmusical suite

Related words (29)

prestoragragtimeyrhythm-and-bluesrockrock-and-rollrubatosextuple timesimple timesuitesuite of dancesswingswingysyncopatedsyncopated musicsyncopationsyncopetempotempo rubatothe new music

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three-quarter timetimetime patterntimingtriple timetriplettwo-four timewaltz time

Noun(1 words)

rag

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

1 entries

dance music

derived

5 entries

ragtimelikeragtimerragtimeyragtimingragtimy

derived from

2 entries

raggedtime

etymologically related_to

1 entries

rag

has context

2 entries

musicmusic genre

is a

3 entries

bookdance musicmusic genre

Translations

6 translations across 5 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

• 拉格泰姆 verb (music genre)
• 散拍 verb (music genre)

Esperanto

1 entries

• ragtimo verb (music genre)

Japanese

1 entries

• ラグタイム verb (music genre)

Polish

1 entries

• ragtime verb (music genre)

Russian

1 entries

• рэгта́йм verb (music genre)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

They like ragtime, jazz and music with a swing to it.

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