Meaning

1 senses
  1. Composition that has several short movements, a style that composers started to use in the 18th century.

    Divertimento

    дивертисме́нтdivertismént

    дивертисме́нтdyvertysmént

    a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form

Translations

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Українська
By meaning 1
eighteenth-century composition in several short movements:
Русский
By meaning 1
eighteenth-century composition in several short movements:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
eighteenth-century composition in several short movements:

Origin

Borrowed from Italian, from divertire (“to amuse, to entertain”), from Latin dīvertere.

Borrowed from Italian, from divertire (“to amuse, to entertain”), from Latin dīvertere.

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Forms

plural: divertimentos / divertimenti

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a musical composition in several movements; has no fixed form:serenade

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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