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largo

1

[ lahr-goh ]

adjective

  1. slow; in a broad, dignified style.


noun

, plural lar·gos.
  1. a largo movement.

Largo

2

[ lahr-goh ]

noun

  1. a town in W Florida.

largo

/ ˈlɑːɡəʊ /

adjective

  1. to be performed slowly and broadly


noun

  1. a piece or passage to be performed in this way

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Word History and Origins

Origin of largo1

From Italian, dating back to 1675–85; large

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Word History and Origins

Origin of largo1

C17: from Italian, from Latin largus large

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Example Sentences

But Largo sees his new book on religion as a natural extension of his previous work.

Largo is now taking a few months off to figure out his next move.

It seems whatever topic Largo tackles, he becomes a man obsessed.

A composer writes a larghetto when he feels something like writing a largo but isn't, on the whole, quite up to it.

He told us he was born at Largo in the county of Fife, Scotland, and was bred a sailor from his youth.

We turn up the Largo Carlo-Felice, the second wide gap of a street, a vast but very short boulevard, like the end of something.

We were on the snow-dome which forms the summit of the Cima del Largo.

In the Finale of the sonata the Largo still makes its influence felt.

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