GREEK MODE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Greek mode mean? 

• GREEK MODE (noun)
  The noun GREEK MODE has 1 sense:

1. any of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece

  Familiarity information: GREEK MODE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEK MODE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the descending diatonic scales in the music of classical Greece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Greek mode" is a kind of...):

mode; musical mode (any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave)