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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My favorite part was the home stretch of tunes from “Music, Fashion, Film”: “Camera,” a startlingly frank confession of her movie-star aspirations; “Magic Metal Montana,” a deeply tender ode to her friend and collaborator A.G.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Friends Phoebe Constanta and Ella Birkwood, second-year students at Nottingham Trent University, are among those trying the new night that combines pumping iron with pumping tunes.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 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
Politicians who once championed the AI infrastructure build-out have changed their tunes right as companies are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into ramping up computing capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
All the tunes in the last ten years were so alike he couldn’t tell one from the other.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
