GAMUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gamut mean? 

• GAMUT (noun)
  The noun GAMUT has 2 senses:

1. a complete extent or range:

2. the entire scale of musical notes

  Familiarity information: GAMUT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAMUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A complete extent or range:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

a face that expressed a gamut of emotions

Hypernyms ("gamut" is a kind of...):

ambit; compass; orbit; range; reach; scope (an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The entire scale of musical notes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("gamut" is a kind of...):

musical scale; scale ((music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave))

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

 Context examples 

He had opened the note, and was reading it with a slight raising of the eyebrows, which was almost the very highest note in his limited emotional gamut.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He ran the gamut of denunciation, rising to heights of wrath that were sublime and almost Godlike, and from sheer exhaustion sinking to the vilest and most indecent abuse.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)