tone-beginning

1. 1.

   a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase

   Synonymsattack

   Broaderbeginning

Questions about tone-beginning

What does tone-beginning mean?

tone-beginning means "a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase".

How many syllables are in tone-beginning?

tone-beginning has 5 syllables: to-ne--be-gin-ning. The stress falls on "be".

What is another word for tone-beginning?

Close synonyms include attack. 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 tone-beginning a common word?

tone-beginning 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.