andante

1. 1.

   at a moderately slow tempo

   “this passage must be played andante”

   music

Other forms of andante

plural

andantes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about andante

What does andante mean?

andante means "a moderately slow tempo (a walking pace)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in andante?

andante has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ɑnˈdɑnteɪ/.

Is andante a common word?

andante is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with andante?

1 word rhymes with andante. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.