Sonata Definition

sə-nätə
sonatas
noun
A composition for one or two instruments, usually consisting of several movements: some modern sonatas have single movements.
Webster's New World
other
A trademark for the drug zaleplon.
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Other Word Forms of Sonata

Noun

Singular:
sonata
Plural:
sonatas

Origin of Sonata

  • From Italian sonata, from the feminine past participle of sonare (modern suonare), from Latin sonāre (“to make sound").

    From Wiktionary

  • Italian from feminine past participle of sonare to sound from Latin sonāre swen- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Sonata Sentence Examples

  • Her favorite sonata bore her into a most intimately poetic world and the look she felt upon her made that world still more poetic.

  • He chose a sprightly sonata in b-flat major.

  • Vermont Country Store features the Eileen West Moonlight Sonata Cotton Lawn Robe.

  • From the far side of the house through the closed doors came the sound of difficult passages--twenty times repeated--of a sonata by Dussek.

  • Moreover, the higher problems of rhythmic movement in the classical sonata forms are far beyond the scope of academic teaching; which is compelled to be contented with a practical plausibility of musical design; and the instrumental music which was considered the highest style of art in 18 3 0 was as far beyond Wagner's early command of such plausibility as it was obviously already becoming a mere academic game.

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Words Starting With

SSOSON

Words Ending With

ATAATA

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Words Starting With S and Ending With A

Starts With S & Ends With AStarts With SO & Ends With AStarts With S & Ends With TA

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With S6 Letter Words Ending With A