🎤 Main speech 💡 Main idea 💡 To set theme 🎵 Main note 🎤 To give main speech

to keynote

5.8

To set the main idea or mood of something

verb
/ˈkiːnoʊt/

: marcar

To inspire the team, the manager will keynote the meeting by setting a positive vision for the project.

Examples

Her speech will keynote the festival, emphasizing the significance of community engagement.
The professor decided to keynote the seminar, focusing on the importance of sustainability in research.
One time you do it, you go, you do a keynote, you've built the system to make that as effortless as possible.

Compounds

keynote speaker

18 3.7

A main speaker at a conference who gives the most important talk

keynote address

10 4.4

A main speech at a formal event that sets the tone

keynote speech

6 4.2

A main talk at a meeting that gives the event's main idea

How Central

to dominate

275 3.7

to keynote

5.8

frame

81 6.2

to inform

Formal

154 7.5

to relate

317 2.2

to mention

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

keynote infinitive

keynoted past

keynoted past participle

keynoting present participle

keynotes third person singular

Morphology

keynote = keynote (semi-transparent) = key + note

The verb is a conversion from the noun 'keynote', and the connection is clear, but the specific sense of 'serve as the guiding principle' is somewhat lexicalized.

Etymology

Keynote as a verb means to give something its main 'tone' or idea, like a musical key's note that sets the sound of a piece. So when a feeling or idea keynotes a project, it becomes the guiding principle.