Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun glissando

1 sense of glissando

Sense 1
glissando -- (a rapid series of ascending or descending notes on the musical scale)
       => tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase -- (a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven")

Synonyms of adv glissando

1 sense of glissando

Sense 1
glissando -- ((musical direction) in the manner of a glissando (with a rapidly executed series of notes); "this should be played glissando, please")