Usually means: Smooth, connected notes without breaks.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word legato:

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

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)

(Note: See legatos as well.)

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.

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