COMMON TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does common time mean? 

• COMMON TIME (noun)
  The noun COMMON TIME has 1 sense:

1. a time signature indicating four beats to the bar

  Familiarity information: COMMON TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMON TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A time signature indicating four beats to the bar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

common measure; common time; four-four time; quadruple time

Hypernyms ("common time" is a kind of...):

musical time ((music) the beat of musical rhythm)