Dictionary.com

Popular Searches

 Thesaurus.com

hypoionian mode

American  
[hahy-poh-ahy-oh-nee-uhn, hip-oh-, hahy-poh-, hip-oh-] / ˈhaɪ poʊ aɪˈoʊ ni ən, ˈhɪp oʊ-, ˌhaɪ poʊ-, ˌhɪp oʊ- /

noun

Music.

  1. a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from G to G, with the final on C.

Etymology

Origin of hypoionian mode

hypo- + Latin Ion ( ius ) Ionian + -ian

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.