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keynote

('k/i/,n/oU/t )

the principal theme in a speech or literary work(noun.communication)

source: wordnet30
a fundamental or central idea(noun.cognition)

source: wordnet30
(music) the first note of a diatonic scale(noun.communication)

Synonym:
tonic

source: wordnet30
The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone.(noun)

source: webster1913

set the keynote of(verb.change)

Example:
Comfort keynotes this designer's Fall collection.

source: wordnet30
give the keynote address to (an audience)(verb.communication)

source: wordnet30

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