Jazz

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Music A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.
  • n. Music Big band dance music.
  • n. Slang Animation; enthusiasm.
  • n. Slang Nonsense.
  • n. Slang Miscellaneous, unspecified things: brought the food and all the jazz to go with it.
  • v. Music To play in a jazz style.
  • v. Slang To exaggerate or lie to: Don't jazz me.
  • v. Slang To give great pleasure to; excite: The surprise party jazzed the guest of honor.
  • v. Slang To cause to accelerate.
  • verb-intransitive. Slang To exaggerate or lie.
  • phrasal-verb. jazz up Slang To make more interesting; enliven: jazzed up the living area with beaded curtains.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
  • n. Energy, excitement, excitability. Very lively.
  • n. The (in)tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a thing.
  • n. Unspecified thing(s).
  • n. Of excellent quality, the genuine article.
  • n. Nonsense.
  • v. To play jazz music.
  • v. To dance to the tunes of jazz music.
  • v. To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
  • v. To complicate.
  • v. To have sex with.
  • v. To destroy.
  • v. To distract/pester.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A type of music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles, but generally featuring intricate rhythms, improvisation, prominent solo segments, and great freedom in harmonic idiom played frequently in a polyphonic style, on various instruments including horn, saxophone, piano and percussion, but rarely stringed instruments.
  • n. empty or insincere or exaggerated talk.
  • n. A style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. have sexual intercourse with
  • n. a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
  • v. play something in the style of jazz
  • n. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
  • n. a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
  • Verb Form
    jazzed    jazzes    jazzing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dance music    play    spiel    talking    talk   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wind    idle words    nothingness   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alcatraz    As    Baz    Braz    as    baz    has    pizazz    pizzazz    razzmatazz   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    indie    pop    funk    hip-hop    inscript    rap    reggae    ballet    solo    concert