Definitions for Octave

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Octave oc·tave

Spelling: [ok-tiv, -teyv]

IPA: /ˈɒk tɪv, -teɪv/

Octave is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in Octave (aceotv).

Definitions for Octave

noun

1. Music. a tone on the eighth degree from a given tone. the interval encompassed by such tones. the harmonic combination of such tones. a series of tones, or of keys of an instrument, extending through this interval.
2. a pipe-organ stop whose pipes give tones an octave above the normal pitch of the keys used.
3. a series or group of eight.
4. Also called octet. Prosody. a group of eight lines of verse, especially the first eight lines of a sonnet in the Italian form. Compare sestet (def 1). a stanza of eight lines.
5. the eighth of a series.
6. Ecclesiastical. the eighth day from a feast day, counting the feast day as the first. the period of eight days beginning with a feast day.
7. one eighth of a pipe of wine.
8. Fencing. the eighth of eight defensive positions.

adjective

1. pitched an octave higher.

Origin of Octave

1300-50; Middle English Latin octāva eighth part, noun use of feminine of octāvus, equivalent to oct- oct- + -āvus adj. suffix

Examples for Octave

The derangement of my system arises entirely from this business of octave's.

Ah, octave, why did you not speak of this sooner, if you knew all; but I will now tell you everything.

The other, octave Feuillet, was anti-Naturalist to the core.

Early this morning went out shooting with octave de Mussidan.

The Nativity, &c., are celebrated for eight days, which is the octave.

The octave above has double the number of vibrations of the lower note.

I had tendencies in the direction of flageolets and octave flutes.

Time in octave––you quitted the blade in a dangerous position.

Anatole France is a philosophical anarchist, and so is octave Misbeau.

I was almost beside myself, but octave's despair was terrible to witness.