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

1 sense of major scale

Sense 1
major scale, major diatonic scale -- (a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th)
       => mode, musical mode -- (any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave)