Usually means: Syncopated music genre, early 1900s.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. ragtime: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ragtime: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ragtime: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ragtime: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ragtime: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ragtime, ragtime: Wordnik
  7. ragtime: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ragtime: Wiktionary
  9. ragtime: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ragtime: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ragtime: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ragtime: Dictionary.com
  13. ragtime: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ragtime: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ragtime (I), Ragtime (TV series), Ragtime (code name), Ragtime (disambiguation), Ragtime (film), Ragtime (musical), Ragtime (novel), Ragtime (yacht), Ragtime: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. ragtime: Rhymezone
  17. ragtime: Free Dictionary
  18. ragtime: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. ragtime: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ragtime: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ragtime: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (music, uncountable) A musical form having a rhythm characterized by strong syncopation in the melody with a regularly accented accompaniment.
noun:  (music, countable) A piece of music in this style.

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