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A composition is a serious piece of writing or music that has taken a lot of thought and imagination to make. A composition has parts that are put together in an organized way.
The students had to write a composition about an invention that they thought was important and that changed the world. A lot of them wrote about computers.The young musician wrote his first composition when he was only six years old.- synonyms:
- piece, work
- similar words:
- article, essay, manuscript, melody, novel, paper, sketch, song
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Composition is the work of writing, especially the work of writing music or things like essays. If you study composition, you are studying how to put together notes in music or ideas in general writing.
Ms. Lu is a wonderful pianist, but now she wants to spend more time on composition.- synonyms:
- music, writing
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The composition of a thing is everything that makes it up, or the way that all these parts or elements are put together.
The scientists studied the composition of rocks from the moon.- synonyms:
- makeup, structure
- similar words:
- arrangement, construction, design, fabric, form, framework, order
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| related words: |
alloy, drawing, number, organization, piece |
| derivation: |
compositional (adj.) |
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