notturno

[ nuh-toor-noh, noh-; Italian nawt-toor-naw ]

noun

, Music.

, plural not·tur·ni [n, uh, -, toor, -nee, noh-, nawt-, toor, -nee].

1. an 18th-century composition for chamber orchestra, similar to a serenade or a divertimento.
2. nocturne.

Word History and Origins

Origin of notturno¹

< Italian: of the night < Latin nocturnus. See nocturn

Example Sentences

The next piece will be Chopin's Notturno in E flat; for your touch has already gained in fulness, and is now unobjectionable.

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Notturno for piano and violoncello, in D major (from Op. 8); pub.

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The Becco Notturno, bleating lamentably, sank through the earth, leaving the rotten and stifling odour of sulphur.

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It is full of the grace of a notturno, of the secret grief of hopeless love.

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