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Definition of 'jazz'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) 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.

2.  jazz
a style of dance music marked by some of the features of jazz.

3.  jazz
Slang. liveliness; spirit; excitement.

4.  jazz
Slang. insincere or pretentious talk.

5.  jazz
Slang. similar or related but unspecified things:
We like sightseeing, museums, and all that jazz.

6. (v.t.) jazz
to play (music) in the manner of jazz.

7.  jazz
to excite or enliven.

8.  jazz
to accelerate.

9.  jazz
Slang.

10.  jazz
to enliven.

11.  jazz
to embellish.

Etymology: (1910–15, Amer.)

Definition of 'jazz'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) wind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
"that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"

2. (noun) jazz
a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles

3. (verb) jazz
a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

4. (verb) jazz
play something in the style of jazz

5. (verb) sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk
have sexual intercourse with
"This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

Definition of 'jazz'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) jazz
music created by African-American people which often makes use of improvisation
a jazz station on the radio

Translation of 'jazz'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: popular music of American Negro origin She prefers jazz to classical music; (
Afrikaans: jazzmusiek	Arabic: موسيقى الجاز	Bulgarian: джаз
Brazilian: jazz	Czech: džez; džezový	German: der Jazz
Danish: jazz	Greek: τζαζ	Spanish: jazz
Estonian: džäss	Farsi: جاز	Finnish: jazz
French: (de) jazz	Hebrew: גָ'אז	Hindi: गीतनाट्य
Croatian: jazz	Hungarian: dzsessz	Indonesian: jazz
Icelandic: djass	Italian: jazz	Japanese: ジャズ
Korean: 재즈	Lithuanian: džiazas	Latvian: džezs; džeza-
Malay: jaz	Dutch: jazz	Norwegian: jazz
Polish: jazz	Persian: جاز	Pashto: جاز، يو ډول امريكائى موسي
Portuguese: jazz	Romanian: jazz	Russian: джаз
Slovak: džez; džezový	Slovenian: jazz	Serbian: džez
Swedish: gräll, prålig	Thai: ดนตรีแจ๊ส	Turkish: caz
Taiwanese: 爵士樂	Ukrainian: джаз	Urdu: امریکا کے حبشیوں کا مخصوص
Vietnamese: nhạc Jazz	Chinese: 爵士音乐
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