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cover

cover version

noun KAH-ver Rare
Arts & Culture Music

Origin: English loanword

Also means

book cover, album cover

Usage Note

Cover in the sense of a musical cover version is feminine: una cover, le cover. It can also mean the cover of a book or magazine and a phone case (la cover del telefono). The plural is uninflected — Italian doesn't add -s to English borrowings.

Examples

"Hanno fatto una cover di quella canzone famosa."

Natural Translation

They did a cover of that famous song.

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