Definitions for jazz

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Spelling: [jaz]

IPA: /dʒæz/

Jazz is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 29 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 31 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in jazz (ajzz).

Definitions for jazz

noun

1. music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
2. a style of dance music, popular especially in the 1920s, arranged for a large band and marked by some of the features of jazz.
3. dancing or a dance performed to such music, as with violent bodily motions and gestures.
4. Slang. liveliness; spirit; excitement.
5. Slang. insincere, exaggerated, or pretentious talk:
6. Slang. similar or related but unspecified things, activities, etc.:

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of jazz.

verb (used with object)

1. to play (music) in the manner of jazz.
2. Informal. to excite or enliven. to accelerate.
3. Slang: Vulgar. to copulate with.

verb (used without object)

1. to dance to jazz music.
2. to play or perform jazz music.
3. Informal. to act or proceed with great energy or liveliness.
4. Slang: Vulgar. to copulate.

Verb phrases

1. jazz up, Informal. to add liveliness, vigor, or excitement to. to add ornamentation, color, or extra features to, in order to increase appeal or interest; embellish. to accelerate.

Origin of jazz

1905-10, Americanism; 1915-20 for def 5; origin uncertain

Examples for jazz

Ragtime, blues, country, jazz, soul, and rock and roll were all pioneered or inspired by black artists.

Someone told me they're called 'jazz Louie and his half-breed bunch.'

I think posterity will enshrine this body of work among the classics of 21st century jazz.

Do you see yourself setting a standard for classical chops in jazz?

"At ease with that jazz," said Lane, and a sheathed finger snapped out.

It means in music to prefer Beethoven not only to jazz but to Brahms.

For the last three decades, he has garnered justifiable praise as one of best pianists in jazz.

And over all the American jazz music boomed and whanged its syncopation.

Against the scene a jazz band flung a whine and a stumble of tinny sounds.

“Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)” brings the rock chameleon into jazz territory, backed up by a horn-heavy jazz big band.