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noun, music. another word for pause
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How people on twitter are using the word fermata
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fermata
- 1) noun, music. another word for pause
Etymology
from Italian, from fermare to stop, from Latin firmāre to establish; see firm1
Collins English Electronic Dictionary - Digital Edition: 2008 © HarperCollins Publishers 2008
this guy's awesome. Saw him doing stand up at the Edinburgh Festival. He's gonna be big
It's an Italian word (like "bus-stop")
I saw Fermata all along the Amalfi coast this autumn - it's what it says on bus stops in Italy. This helped make waiting for a bus that little bit more interesting.