fugue

Meaning of fugue

noun
  1. a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
  2. a loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy.

late 16th century: from French, or from Italian fuga, from Latin fuga ‘flight’, related to fugere ‘flee’.

Information about fugue

Hyphenation of fugue

fugue

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • fugue is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with fugue

counterfugue, fougue

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