eighth note

1. 1.

   a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note

   Synonymsquaver

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Questions about eighth note

What does eighth note mean?

eighth note means "a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note".

What is another word for eighth note?

Close synonyms include quaver. 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 eighth note a common word?

eighth note 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.