Definitions for neumes

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neumes neume

Spelling: [noom, nyoom]

IPA: /num, nyum/

Neumes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in neumes (eemnsu).

Definitions for neumes

noun

1. any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.

Origin of neumes

1400-50; late Middle English Medieval Latin neuma Greek pneûma breath

Examples for neumes

The earliest form of notation of which we have any knowledge is called the neume notation.

neume, nūm, n. a succession of notes to be sung to one syllable, a sequence: an old sign for a tone or a phrase.