classical music

1. 1.

   traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste

   Synonymsclassicalserious music

   Broadermusic genre

   Narrowerchamber musicoperacantataconcertofuguerondosonata

Questions about classical music

What does classical music mean?

classical music means "traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste".

What is another word for classical music?

Close synonyms include classical, serious music. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is classical music a common word?

classical music 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.