musical octave

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   a musical interval of eight tones

   Synonymsoctave

   Broaderinterval

Questions about musical octave

What does musical octave mean?

musical octave means "a musical interval of eight tones".

What is another word for musical octave?

Close synonyms include octave. 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 musical octave a common word?

musical octave 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.