RONDEAU (rondeaux)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: rondeaux   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rondeau mean? 

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

1. a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata

2. a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas

  Familiarity information: RONDEAU used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RONDEAU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rondeau; rondo

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

classical; classical music; serious music (traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rondeau; rondel

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

poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

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

roundel (English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third)

rondelet (a shorter form of rondeau)

Derivation:

rondelet (a shorter form of rondeau)