Meaning

3 senses
  1. A (normally) complete range.

    1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.

    Skala, Palette

    га́ммаgámma, диапазо́нdiapazón, охва́тoxvát

    a complete extent or range:

  2. All the notes in a musical scale.

    Tonumfang

    га́ммаgámma

    the entire scale of musical notes

  3. All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.

    Farbumfang, Gamut

    га́ммаgámma, диапазо́нdiapazón, охва́тoxvát

Examples

4 sentences
  1. This book runs the gamut of emotions.

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  2. The maple leaves’ gamut of lovely colours was a clear sign that autumn had come.

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  3. Tom experienced the whole gamut of emotions from sheer joy to utter despair during his relationship with Mary.

    ruЗа время отношений с Мэри Том испытал на себе весь спектр эмоций: от полной радости до совершенного отчаяния.

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  4. Here's an example of a semantic gamut: non-existent, unique, rare, uncommon, common, trite, worn-out, universal.

    deHier ein Beispiel für ein semantisches Spektrum: nicht existent, einzigartig, selten, unüblich, gewöhnlich, banal, abgedroschen, universell.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
complete range:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
complete range:
all the notes in the musical scale:
all the colours available to a device:

Origin

1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma

1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.

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Forms

plural: gamuts
Singulargamut
Pluralgamuts

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedut

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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