tune
noun
a succession of musical sounds forming a melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
tunes
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pluralof tune.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof tune (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
tunenouna succession of musical sounds forming a melody, with or without the harmony accompanying it.
Example Sentences
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I'll find tunes I wouldn't have discovered otherwise.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
He comes across as so clueless that the audience can barely credit him for his reporting work winning an eventual Pulitzer — he’s just soulful eyes and a cellphone ringtone that tinkles old show tunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
I still devour new music this way, clocking a daily average of four hours of tunes familiar and novel.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Too often, the tracks fall into an in-between space, where they’re not rhythmically interesting enough to make you want to move and don’t have the tunes to stand up as pop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
So Mrs. Popper picked out three different tunes to play on the basement piano, one for each different kind of act.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
