Ottava

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • ad. Music At an octave higher or lower than the notes written. Used chiefly as a direction, positioned above or below a staff.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • ad. One octave higher. Marking indicates a passage to be transposed up one octave. Abbreviation: 8va.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An octave.
    • Word Usage
    "Christopher Serra The poem -- modest in length, if not in scope -- comprises eight stanzas of eight lines each and employs a rhyme scheme, abababcc, known as ottava rima."
    Cross Reference
    quindicessima   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games. The OFFICIAL SCRABBLE PLAYERS DICTIONARY, THE OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT AND CLUB WORD LIST, and associated word lists are properties owned by Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada, and are used with permission.