/tjuːn/
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Translation
A group of musical notes in a pleasing order that you can sing, hum, or play.
Word origin
A changed form of tone, from Greek tonos, the pitch of a sound, which came into English through Latin.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- tonos
- English cognates
- tone
Examples
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A tune is the line of notes you can sing along to.
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A song has words; a tune is just the music.
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"Out of tune" means the notes sound wrong; "in tune" means they sound right.
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