OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17244

composition

/ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
composición
The general makeup of a thing or person.
It seemed that the milk of human kindness had not been left out of his composition.
John of Gaunt. O how that name befits my composition! Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old: Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast; And who abstains from meat that is not gau…
composición
A work of music, literature or art.
[…] and how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard words, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment. Composition seems to m…
composición
The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
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