home key

1. 1.

   the basic key in which a piece of music is written

   Synonymstonic key

   Broaderkey

Questions about home key

What does home key mean?

home key means "the basic key in which a piece of music is written".

What is another word for home key?

Close synonyms include tonic key. 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 home key a common word?

home key is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.