bagatelle
Meaning of bagatelle
noun
- a game in which small balls are hit and then allowed to roll down a sloping board on which there are holes, each numbered with the score achieved if a ball goes into it, with pins acting as obstructions.
- a thing regarded as too unimportant or easy to be worth much consideration.
dealing with these boats was a mere bagatelle for the world's oldest yacht club
- a short, light piece of music, especially one for the piano.
mid 17th century (in bagatelle (sense 2)): from French, from Italian bagatella, perhaps from baga ‘baggage’ or from a diminutive of Latin baca ‘berry’. bagatelle (sense 1) dates from the early 19th century.
Information about bagatelle
- It is a name.
- The plural form of bagatelle is: bagatelles.
- Languages in which bagatelle is used:
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Hyphenation of bagatelle
bagatelle
- It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
- bagatelle is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
bagatelle synonyms
Meaning fluff:
Translation of bagatelle
- German: Bagatelle, Kleinigkeit, Unwichtigkeit
- Spanish: bagatela
- French: bagatelle
- Italian: baggianata, bazzeccola, bagatella
- Portuguese: bagatela
Words that rhyme with bagatelle
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