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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Keynote \Key"note`\, n. 1. (Mus.) The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also {key tone}. 2. The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as the keynote of a policy or a sermon. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: keynote n 1: the principal theme in a speech or literary work 2: a fundamental or central idea 3: (music) the first note of a diatonic scale [syn: {tonic}] v 1: set the keynote of "Comfort keynotes this designer's Fall collection" 2: give the keynote address to (an audience)
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