whole step

noun

Music.

1. an interval of two semitones, as A-B or B-C♯; a major second.

Word History and Origins

Origin of whole step¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

This is a half step where a whole step is needed.

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“This could be a whole step forward for understanding magmatism—and the global composition of the bulk Earth.”

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Others went so far as to demand that President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party as a whole step down.

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Label the half steps and whole steps of the A minor scale.

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Major keys, for example, always follow the same pattern of half steps and whole steps.

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