Usually means: Smooth, connected notes without breaks.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Legato:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. legato: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. legato: Merriam-Webster
  3. legato: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. legato: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. legato: Collins English Dictionary
  6. legato: Vocabulary.com
  7. Legato, legato: Wordnik
  8. legato: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. legato: Wiktionary
  10. legato: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. legato: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. legato: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Legato, legato: Dictionary.com
  14. Legato (disambiguation), Legato: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Legato: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. legato: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. legato: Rhymezone
  18. Legato: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. legato: FreeDictionary.org
  20. legato: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. legato: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. legato: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. legato: The Folk File
  2. Legato: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (legato)

▸ adverb:  (music) Smoothly, in a connected manner.
▸ noun:  (music) A style of performance characterized by smoothly connected notes.
▸ noun:  (music) A passage that is played legato.

Similar:
smooth, leg., portato, adjoinedly, connectedly, seamlessly, lissomely, fluidly, togetherlike, connectively, more...

Opposite:
staccato, detached, abrupt

Types:
staccato, portamento, marcato, spiccato, tenuto, portato, spianato, more...

Adjectives:
perfect, smoothest, more, true, good, pure, beautiful, non, fine, continuous, real

Colors:
    soft blue,     pastel pink,     muted lavender,     creamy ivory,     dusky rose, more...



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Similar:
smooth, leg., portato, adjoinedly, connectedly, seamlessly, lissomely, fluidly, togetherlike, connectively, more...

Opposite:
staccato, detached, abrupt

Types:
staccato, portamento, marcato, spiccato, tenuto, portato, spianato, more...

Adjectives:
perfect, smoothest, more, true, good, pure, beautiful, non, fine, continuous, real

Colors:
    soft blue,     pastel pink,     muted lavender,     creamy ivory,     dusky rose, more...



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