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English
Noun
background music (uncountable)
- Any music played in a public space whose main function is to create an atmosphere suitable to a specific occasion, rather than to be listened to.
- (music) Any music in a film, video game, or other medium that establishes mood and is not meant to have the audience's focus.
Synonyms
- (atmospheric music played in public space): piped music
Coordinate terms
Translations
music played in a public space
- Afrikaans: agtergrondmusiek
- Catalan: música de fons f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 背景音樂 / 背景音乐 (bui3 ging2 jam1 ngok6)
- Mandarin: 背景音樂 / 背景音乐 (zh) (bèijǐng yīnyuè)
- Finnish: taustamusiikki (fi)
- French: musique d’ambiance (fr) f
- German: Hintergrundmusik (de) f, Kaufhausmusik f (literally “department store music”), Fahrstuhlmusik f (literally “elevator music”)
- Hungarian: háttérzene (hu)
- Icelandic: bakgrunnstónlist f, fylgitónlist f
- Japanese: 背景音楽 (はいけいおんがく, haikei ongaku), BGM (bījīemu), バックグラウンドミュージック (bakkuguraundo myūjikku)
- Korean: 배경 음악(背景音樂) (baegyeong eumak), 백그라운드 뮤직 (baekgeuraundeu myujik), 브금 (beugeum) (slang)
- Portuguese: música de fundo f, música ambiente (pt) f
- Romanian: muzică de ambianță f
- Russian: фо́новая му́зыка f (fónovaja múzyka)
- Spanish: hilo musical m, música fondal f, música de fondo f
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music in a film, video game or other medium