compositions

nounstructure, arrangement
nounwritten or musical creation

Synonyms for compositions

noun structure, arrangement

Antonyms for compositions

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "action of combining," also "manner in which a thing is composed," from Old French composicion (13c., Modern French composition) "composition, make-up, literary work, agreement, settlement," from Latin compositionem (nominative compositio) "a putting together, connecting, arranging," noun of action from past participle stem of componere (see composite). Meaning "art of constructing sentences" is from 1550s; that of "literary production" (often also "writing exercise for students") is from c.1600. Printing sense is 1832; meaning "arrangement of parts in a picture" is from 1706.

Example Sentences for compositions

Then, too, I was a favourite with my schoolfellows, who frequently did my compositions for me.

But Dryden's compositions are unparalleled in any literature.

He was the author of some fine hymns and other compositions which we know and love today.

And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books of all ages.

Milton was so great a musician that there could have been no fault in sound in his compositions.

It may be said, that we have no examples of any compositions of this sort.

Some compositions of metal require a high speed, and some a hooked tool.

As an interpreter of these compositions, however, he was imaginative and forceful.

"Elijah," the most admired of all Mendelssohn's compositions, was finished in 1846.

Compositions so produced are to poetry what mosaic is to painting.