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gam·ut    Audio Help   [gam-uht] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the entire scale or range: the gamut of dramatic emotion from grief to joy.
2.Music.
a.the whole series of recognized musical notes.
b.the major scale.
[Origin: 1425–75; late ME < ML; contr. of gamma ut, equiv. to gamma, used to represent the first or lowest tone (G) in the medieval scale + ut (later do); the notes of the scale (ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si) being named from a Latin hymn to St. John the Baptist: Ut queant laxis resonare fibris. Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labii reatum, Sancte Iohannes]

—Synonyms 1. sweep, breadth, scope, reach, extent, field.
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Main Entry:  gamut
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  compass, continuum, extent, field, orbit, range, reach, scale, series, span, spectrum
Source:  Synonym Collection v1.1
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