treble clef

1. 1.

   a clef that puts the G above middle C on the second line of a staff

   Synonymstreble staffG clef

   Broaderclef

Questions about treble clef

What does treble clef mean?

treble clef means "a clef that puts the G above middle C on the second line of a staff".

What is another word for treble clef?

Close synonyms include treble staff, G clef. 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 treble clef a common word?

treble clef 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.