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bach
/bɑk/
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What does bach mean?
noun
- A small hut, especially for a man living alone.
- Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.
- Clipping of bachelorette.
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- A surname from German.
- Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer.
- A surname from Vietnamese.
- A motif consisting of the notes B flat, A, C, B natural.
noun
- (archaic, slang) A bachelor.
verb
- (archaic) To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
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IPA pronunciation
/bɑk/
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She glanced round as much as to say, “not only a few stuffy books and Bach.”
We talked of music and he was regretting the decline of a taste for Bach, when he shifted the basket to the other arm.
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From him Thea had learned something about the works of Gluck and Bach, and he used to play her some of the compositions of Schumann.
But there is no doubt that Bach was born with a passion for music, which formed the mainspring of his industry, and was the true secret of his success.
They do not get that absolute mastery over technical difficulties of figuration which was the great secret of the incredible facility and spontaneity of composition displayed by Handel and Bach.