più

[ pyoo ]

/ pyu /

adverb Music.

more: più allegro.

QUIZZES

CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PART OF SPEECH QUIZ!

How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text! Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.

Question 1 of 10

In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.

adverb, adverb

adverb, conjunction

adjective, conjunction

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Origin of più

1715–25; < Italian < Latin plus; see plus

Words nearby più

piña cloth, piña colada, piñata, piñon, piñon jay, più, piłsudski, pk, pk., pkg., pkt

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Example sentences from the Web for piu

M. le Comt de la Tour du Piu Paulin, minister of the war department.
Dr. Stearns's Tour from London to Paris|Samuel Stearns
Et con uarie lettere di Principi a piu persone, scritte da diuersi Secretarii in piu occasioni, e in diuersi tempi.
Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge|W. W. Greg
At the piu forte, care must be taken to have the outer side of the hand well raised, and moved from the wrist.
Piano Mastery|Harriette Brower
Of the beautifully-melodious No. 13, the piu lento and the peculiar closing bars are especially noteworthy.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician|Frederick Niecks

British Dictionary definitions for piu

più

/ (pjuː) /

adverb

music (in combination) more (quickly, softly, etc)più allegro; più mosso; più lento

Word Origin for più

Italian, from Latin plus more

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