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eighth note

noun

, Music.
  1. a note having one eighth of the time value of a whole note; quaver.


eighth note

noun

  1. music a note having the time value of an eighth of a semibreve Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)quaver
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eighth note1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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Example Sentences

Sixteenth-notes may be used in place of the eighth-note, but should be approached and left step-wise.

The second and third movements each occupy the duration of an eighth-note.

In the second bar a note which the editor had taken for an eighth-note was explained by the Composer as being a grace-note.

In a slow tempo it may serve you to think of the second eighth-note of the triplet as being subdivided into two sixteenths.

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