- a variant spelling of fah
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fa
(fä),USA pronunciation n. [Music.]
fā (fä),USA pronunciation n.
- Music and Dancethe syllable used for the fourth tone of a diatonic scale.
- Music and Dance(in the fixed system of solmization) the tone F. Cf. sol-fa (def. 1).
- 1275–1325; Middle English; see gamut
fā (fä),USA pronunciation n.
- the twentieth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- Arabic
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(in tonic sol-fa) the fourth degree of any major scale; subdominant
'fa' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Apostolic Fathers
- Busby
- Cup Final
- Ethics of the Fathers
- F, f
- FA Cup
- Fa Ngum
- Fa Xian
- Fabian Society
- Faerie Queene, The
- Fagin
- Fahrenheit
- Farey sequence
- Father Christmas
- Father Time
- Father's Day
- Ferguson
- Lemalu
- affable
- alfalfa butterfly
- alfalfa weevil
- aucuba
- calcareous tufa
- catalufa
- church father
- city father
- club sofa
- conscript fathers
- den father
- desert fathers
- do
- doh
- f.a.
- fa-la
- fable
- facia
- facial
- facial angle
- facial nerve
- facial neuralgia
- facial tissue
- faery
- fah
- fal la
- famous
- fang
- fatal
- fatalism
- father
- father confessor