Definition of Largo

1. Noun. (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner.

Category relationships: Music
Generic synonyms: Composition, Musical Composition, Opus, Piece, Piece Of Music, Musical Passage, Passage

2. Adjective. Very slow in tempo and broad in manner.
Similar to: Slow

3. Adverb. Slowly and broadly.
Category relationships: Music

Definition of Largo

1. a. & adv. Slow or slowly; -- more so than adagio; next in slowness to grave, which is also weighty and solemn.

Definition of Largo

1. Noun. (music) a very slow tempo ¹

2. Noun. (music) a musical piece or movement in such a tempo ¹

3. Adjective. (music) strong and stately ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Largo

1. a slow musical movement [n -GOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Largo

larger than life
larges
largess
largesse
largesses
largest
larget
largets
larghetto
larghettos
larghissimo
largifical
largiloquent
largish
largition
largo (current term)
largos
lari
lariat
lariat ether
lariated
lariating
lariats
lariciresinol
lariciresinol reductase
lariciresinols
larid
larikin
larimar
larine

Literary usage of Largo

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Embryo largo and straight, in sparing albumen. A large family in the wanner regions, sparingly represented in the temperate zones, only two small genera ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... with black eyes, prominent cheek bones, the nose flat rather than arched or straight, nostrils wide and full, mouth inclined to be largo, lips full, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1862)
"The Donations laid on the table included the following :— Portions of Human Bones found in a Stone Cist at Lundin, near largo, Fifeshire. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"CHIAJA, kya'-ya, a fashionable driveway in modern Naples, commencing at the largo Vittoria and extending for a mile along the coast. ..."

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