| COLORATURA | • coloratura n. (Uncountable) Florid or fancy passages in vocal music. • coloratura n. (Countable) A singer of such passages, especially a soprano. • coloratura adj. Pertaining to coloratura. |
| COLORATURE | • colorature n. (Music) An elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th… • COLORATURE n. a highly ornamented, virtuoso (musical passage); a singer, esp. soprano, of such music, also COLORATURA. |
| FIORATURAE | • FIORATURA n. (Italian) a florid embellishment introduced into a melody by a singer or player, also FIORITURA. |
| FOEDERATUS | • foederatus n. A confederate. One of the tribes bound by treaty, who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been… • FOEDERATUS n. (Latin) a conquered enemy of Rome; an auxiliary soldier fighting for the Romans. |
| GRATUITIES | • gratuities n. Plural of gratuity. • GRATUITY n. a gift of money. |
| GRATUITOUS | • gratuitous adj. Given freely; unearned. • gratuitous adj. Unjustified or unnecessary; not called for by the circumstances. • GRATUITOUS adj. done freely; needless. |
| GRATULATED | • gratulated v. Simple past tense and past participle of gratulate. • GRATULATE v. (archaic) to congratulate. |
| GRATULATES | • gratulates v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gratulate. • GRATULATE v. (archaic) to congratulate. |
| LITERATURE | • literature n. The body of all written works. • literature n. The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture. • literature n. (Usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject. |
| PERFORATUS | • perforatus n. (Anatomy) The short flexor of the toes, or the superficial flexor of the fingers. • PERFORATUS n. the short flexor of the toes or the superficial flexor of the finger. |
| QUADRATURA | • QUADRATURA n. (Italian) a wall or ceiling painted with arches and columns in strong perspective. |
| QUADRATURE | • quadrature n. The process of making something square; squaring. • quadrature n. (Mathematics) The act or process of constructing a square that has the same area as a given plane figure… • quadrature n. (Mathematics, numerical analysis) The calculation of a definite integral by numerical means. |
| SEPARATUMS | • SEPARATUM n. a separate offprint. |
| SERRATURES | • serratures n. Plural of serrature. • SERRATURE n. a notching, like that between the teeth of a saw. |
| SERRATUSES | • SERRATUS n. (Latin) a muscle of the thorax. |
| SUBSTRATUM | • substratum n. A layer that lies underneath another. • substratum n. (Figuratively) The underlying cause or basis of something. • substratum n. (Linguistics) A substrate. |