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leading tone

  [lee-ding]
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–noun Music.
the seventh degree of a diatonic scale; subtonic.
Also called leading note.

Origin:
1910–15
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lead·ing tone   (lē'dĭng)   
n.   Music
The seventh tone or degree of a scale that is a half tone below the tonic; a subtonic.

[From its tendency to lead into or rise to the tonic.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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