keynote

Nouns

  • (n) the principal theme in a speech or literary work
  • (n) a fundamental or central idea
  • (n) (music) the first note of a diatonic scale tonic,

Verbs

  • (v) set the keynote of
    • Comfort keynotes this designer's Fall collection
  • (v) give the keynote address to (an audience)

Synonyms

tonic

Words of close approximity

keynote address keynote speech