Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of tenor is as below...

Alto :: Alto (n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor..

Canto :: Canto (n.) The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano..

Contratenor :: Contratenor (n.) Counter tenor; contralto.

Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor.

Homotonous :: Homotonous (a.) Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.

Mean :: Mean (n.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part..

Tenor :: Tenor (n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it..

Purport :: Purport (n.) Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

Tenor :: Tenor (n.) Stamp; character; nature.

Tone :: Tone (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory..

Descant :: Descant (v. i.) Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song..

Tenor :: Tenor (n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument..

Uniformly :: Uniformly (adv.) In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild..

Contralto :: Contralto (n.) The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.

Counter :: Counter (adv.) Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor..

Trombone :: Trombone (n.) A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family of wind instruments whos

Register :: Register (v. i.) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register..

Counter Tenor :: Counter tenor () One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor..

Part :: Part (n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc..

Baritone :: Baritone (n.) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other..

Random Fonts

Most Popular