musical rhythm

1. 1.

   the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

   “the piece has a fast rhythm”

   “the conductor set the beat”

   Synonymsrhythmbeat

   Broadermusical time

   Narrowerbackbeatdownbeatupbeatsyncopation

Questions about musical rhythm

What does musical rhythm mean?

musical rhythm means "the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music".

What is another word for musical rhythm?

Close synonyms include rhythm, beat. 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 rhythm a common word?

musical rhythm 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.