whole note

1. 1.

   a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)

   Synonymssemibreve

   Broadernote

Questions about whole note

What does whole note mean?

whole note means "a musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)".

What is another word for whole note?

Close synonyms include semibreve. 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 whole note a common word?

whole 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.