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rag⋅time

  [rag-tahym]
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–noun Music.
1. rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
2. a style of American music having this rhythm, popular from about 1890 to 1915.
Origin:
1895–1900; prob. rag(ged) + time

Related forms:
ragtimey, adjective
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Rag⋅time

  [rag-tahym]
–noun
a novel (1975) by E. L. Doctorow.
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rag·time   (rāg'tīm')   
n.  A style of jazz characterized by elaborately syncopated rhythm in the melody and a steadily accented accompaniment.

[From rag4.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Cultural Dictionary

ragtime

A style of early jazz music written largely for the piano in the early twentieth century, characterized by jaunty rhythms and a whimsical mood.

Note: Scott Joplin was a famous composer and performer of ragtime.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

ragtime 
"syncopated, jazzy piano music," 1897 (in song title "Mississippi Rag" by W.H. Krell), from rag "dance ball (1895, Amer.Eng. dialect), possibly a shortening of ragged, in reference to the rhythmic imbalance.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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