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- [jaz]
- /dʒæz/
- /dʒæz/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [jaz]
- /dʒæz/
Definitions of jazz word
- noun jazz music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality. 1
- noun jazz a style of dance music, popular especially in the 1920s, arranged for a large band and marked by some of the features of jazz. 1
- noun jazz dancing or a dance performed to such music, as with violent bodily motions and gestures. 1
- noun jazz Slang. liveliness; spirit; excitement. 1
- noun jazz Slang. insincere, exaggerated, or pretentious talk: Don't give me any of that jazz about your great job! 1
- noun jazz Slang. similar or related but unspecified things, activities, etc.: He goes for fishing and all that jazz. 1
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Origin of jazz
First appearance:
before 1905 One of the 15% newest English words
1905-10, Americanism; 1915-20 for def 5; origin uncertain
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Parts of speech for Jazz
noun
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preposition
conjunction
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jazz popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
jazz usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for jazz
noun jazz
- stuff — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
- gear — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- things — (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
- paraphernalia — (sometimes used with a singular verb) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier's paraphernalia.
- belongings — Your belongings are the things that you own, especially things that are small enough to be carried.
verb jazz
- in flames — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
- stir up — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- jiving — swing music or early jazz.
- innerving — Present participle of innerve.
- commove — to disturb; stir up
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