Usually means: Essential, persistent part in music.
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  1. obligato: Merriam-Webster
  2. obligato: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obligato: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. obligato: Collins English Dictionary
  5. obligato: Vocabulary.com
  6. obligato: Wordnik
  7. obligato: Wiktionary
  8. obligato: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Obligato, obligato: Dictionary.com
  10. Obligato: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. obligato: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. obligato: Rhymezone
  13. Obligato: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. obligato: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. obligato: FreeDictionary.org
  16. obligato: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. obligato: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. obligato: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Obligato)

noun:  Alternative spelling of obbligato [(music) An obbligato section; a prominent countermelody, often written to be played or sung above the principal theme (in a higher pitch range).]

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