MARTIAL MUSIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does martial music mean? 

• MARTIAL MUSIC (noun)
  The noun MARTIAL MUSIC has 1 sense:

1. brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade

  Familiarity information: MARTIAL MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARTIAL MUSIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brisk marching music suitable for troops marching in a military parade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

martial music; military march; military music

Hypernyms ("martial music" is a kind of...):

march; marching music (genre of music written for marching)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "martial music"):

quickstep (military march accompanying quick time)

pibroch (martial music with variations; to be played by bagpipes)

 Context examples 

As far as eye could see from among the rocky gorges and the bristles of the pine woods there came the quick twinkle and glitter of steel, while the wind brought with it sudden distant bursts of martial music from the great host which rolled by every road and by-path towards the narrow pass of Roncesvalles.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)