quarter note

1. 1.

   a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note

   Synonymscrotchet

   Broadernote

Questions about quarter note

What does quarter note mean?

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

What is another word for quarter note?

Close synonyms include crotchet. 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 quarter note a common word?

quarter 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.