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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata;
[syn: rondo, rondeau]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rondo \Ron"do\, n. [It. rond[`o], fr. F. rondeau. See Rondeau.] 1. (Mus.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains. "The Rondo-form was the earliest and most frequent definite mold for musical construction." --Grove. [1913 Webster] 2. (Poetry) See Rondeau, 1. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rondeau \Ron*deau"\, n. [F. See Roundel.] [Written also rondo.] 1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule. [1913 Webster] Note: When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain. --Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mus.) See Rondo, 1. [1913 Webster]
U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Rondo, AR (town, FIPS 60590) Location: 34.65744 N, 90.82022 W Population (1990): 283 (106 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)