What is the meaning of Adagio?

  • (a.&adv.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.
  • (n.) A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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MLAWebster's. "adagio" 27 May 2011. Web. 24 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/adagio/definitions/1970770>
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