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English to English noun
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the principal theme in a speech or literary work |  | source: wordnet30
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a fundamental or central idea | | source: wordnet30
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(music) the first note of a diatonic scale | | source: wordnet30
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The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone. | | source: webster1913
verb
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set the keynote of | | Example: Comfort keynotes this designer's Fall collection
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give the keynote address to (an audience) | | source: wordnet30
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