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gamut - What does it mean?

Definition of 'gamut'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A (normally) complete range.
  • * 19?? , (Dorothy Parker), review of (Katharine Hepburn) in the Broadway play (The Lake)
  • She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), Chapter 2
  • The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
  • (music) All the notes in the musical scale.
  • All the colours available to a device such as a monitor or printer.
  • Derived terms

    * run the gamut

    References

    Similar to 'gamut'

    gaunt, gnat, gent, giant, gannet, gemot, genet, ginnet, giaunt, gemoot, gnit, geneat