BACH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bach mean? 

• BACH (noun)
  The noun BACH has 2 senses:

1. German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750)

2. the music of Bach

  Familiarity information: BACH used as a noun is rare.

• BACH (verb)
  The verb BACH has 1 sense:

1. lead a bachelor's existence

  Familiarity information: BACH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bach; Johann Sebastian Bach

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

organist (a person who plays an organ)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The music of Bach

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

he played Bach on the organ

Hypernyms ("Bach" is a kind of...):

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

• BACH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lead a bachelor's existence

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

bach; bachelor

Hypernyms (to "bach" is one way to...):

live (lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

The BTB/POZ domain is an approximately 120 amino acid long, hydrophobic region found in two distinct classes of transcriptional regulators that contain either a C-terminal basic leucine zipper motif (POK proteins) or a Zn-finger region (Bach proteins).

(BTB/POZ Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Returning from one of Mozart's grand operas, splendidly performed at the Royal Theatre, he looked over his own, played a few of the best parts, sat staring at the busts of Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Bach, who stared benignly back again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)