instrumental
noun/ˌɪnstrəˈmentl/
/ˌɪnstrəˈmentl/
- a piece of music (usually popular music) in which only musical instruments are used with no singingTopics Musicc2
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- (grammar) (in some languages) the form of a noun, pronoun or adjective when it refers to a thing that is used to do something compare ablative, accusative, dative, genitive, nominative, vocative
Word Originlate Middle English: via French from medieval Latin instrumentalis, from Latin instrumentum, from the verb instruere, from in- ‘upon, towards’ + struere ‘pile up’.
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