jazz
A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the…A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
Meaning
7 senses(uncountable, usually)A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
Jazz
джазdžaz
джазdžaz
(figuratively, uncountable, usually)Energy, excitement, excitability.
(uncountable, usually)The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
and all that jazz
What is all this jazz lying around?
(uncountable, usually)Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
That show was the jazz!
This risotto is simply the jazz.
(uncountable, usually)Nonsense.
Stop talking jazz.
(slang, uncountable, usually)Semen, jizz.
(uncountable, usually)A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
- a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands
- a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
- empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
Examples
270 sentencesI know he likes jazz music.
Я знаю, що він любить джаз. — uaspeaker
I don't like jazz so much.
Мені не дуже вже й подобається джаз. — deniko
ruЯ не очень-то люблю джаз. — marafon
I like listening to music, especially jazz.
Я люблю слухати музику, особливо джаз. — deniko
ruЯ люблю слушать музыку, особенно джаз. — marafon
deIch höre gern Musik, vor allem Jazz. — samueldora
She likes jazz, and so do I.
Їй подобається джаз, і мені також. — deniko
deSie mag Jazz, und ich auch. — MUIRIEL
I used to love to play jazz.
Раніше я обожнював грати джаз. — deniko
Translations
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Origin
Unknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference toUnknown. First attested around 1912 in a discussion of baseball; attested in reference to music around 1915. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to jasm and jism.
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Forms
plural: jazzesSynonyms
206 synonymsWord family
69 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- like jazz
- listen to jazz
- jazz saxophone player
- good jazz saxophonist
- pretty good jazz
- good jazz saxophone
- a jazz musician
- jazz musician
- jazz saxophonist
- interested in jazz
- to play jazz
- is a jazz