forte
/fɔːt//fɔɹt/
noun
- 1
A strength or talent.
“He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte.”
- 2
The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
noun
- 1
A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.
adjective
- 1
Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)
adverb
- 1
Loudly.
“The musicians played the passage forte.”
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