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| intonation pattern or intonation contour | |
| —n | |
| linguistics a characteristic series of musical pitch levels that serves to distinguish between questions, statements, and other types of utterance in a language | |
| intonation contour or intonation contour | |
| —n | |
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| intonation pattern | |
noun | |
| intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements |
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is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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