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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Very; much. Used chiefly in directions.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In music, very; much: as, allegro molto, very fast.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb (Mus.) Much; very.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb much

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian, from Latin multum, from neuter of multus, many, much; see mel- in Indo-European roots.]

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