Hypernyms for "tone"
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acciaccatura
appoggiatura
blue note
catatonia
chord
color
coloration
colour
colouration
crotchet
demisemiquaver
dominant
eighth note
grace note
half note
harmonic
hemidemisemiquaver
Hollywood
hypertonia
hypertonicity
hypertonus
hypotonia
hypotonicity
hypotonus
keynote
leading tone
mediant
mellowness
middle C
minim
monotone
muscle tone
muscular tonus
myotonia
nasality
note
passing note
passing tone
pedal
pedal point
plangency
quarter note
quaver
register
resonance
reverberance
richness
ringing
rotundity
roundness
semibreve
semiquaver
shake
shrillness
sixteenth note
sixty-fourth note
sonority
sonorousness
stridence
stridency
subdominant
submediant
subtonic
supertonic
thirty-second note
tinge
tonic
trill
undertone
vibrancy
whole note
Zeitgeist
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.