ground bass

1. 1.

   a short melody in the bass that is constantly repeated

   Broaderbassostinato

Questions about ground bass

What does ground bass mean?

ground bass means "a short melody in the bass that is constantly repeated".

Is ground bass a common word?

ground bass 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.