fugue
English · Español · Français · Português · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
fugue
- /fjuːɡ/ US, UK
- /fyɡ/ Multicultural London English
Rhymes with -uːɡ
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugiō (“to flee”); compare Ancient Greek φυγή (phugḗ). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts. Doublet of fuga.
noun fugues
-
A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
Similar: fuga
- Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality. Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.
- A fugue state.
verb fugues · fuguing · fugued
- To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
- To spend time in a dissociative fugue state. And most of them women, and these only stayed in a fugue state for a relatively short time, like a couple of hours or a couple of days. As far as we know Malenov fugued for close to twenty years.
Translations
Talk about this word "fugue." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fugue. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. fugue. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fugue "fugue." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fugue.Cite this
@misc{fugue_2026,
title = {fugue},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fugue},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
