treble staff

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstreble clefG clef

   Broaderclef

Questions about treble staff

What does treble staff mean?

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

What is another word for treble staff?

Close synonyms include treble clef, 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 staff a common word?

treble staff 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.