"minor key" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: minor keys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} minor key (plural minor keys)
  1. (music) A musical key based upon a minor scale. Categories (topical): Music Related terms: in a minor key, major key, key signature Translations (music: a musical key based upon a minor scale): 小調 (Chinese Mandarin), 小调 (xiǎodiào) (Chinese Mandarin), molli (Finnish), mode mineur [masculine] (French), tonalité mineure [feminine] (French), Molltonart [feminine] (German), Moll [neuter] (German), moll hangnem (Hungarian), mionghléas [masculine] (Irish), 短調 (tanchō) (alt: たんちょう) (Japanese), tonacja molowa [feminine] (Polish), мино́рная тона́льность (minórnaja tonálʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), мино́р (minór) [masculine] (Russian), molltonart [common-gender] (Swedish), moll (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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    },
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      ],
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    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "music: a musical key based upon a minor scale",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
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    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "мино́р"
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      "word": "molltonart"
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