tenor has definitions from the fields of music,performing arts
1
[ noun ] (music) the pitch range of the highest male voice

Related terms

high_pitch

2
[ noun ] (music) the adult male singing voice above baritone

Synonyms

tenor_voice

Used in print

(Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)

He was also at_the_same_time gaining practical experience as a safe_breaker and highwayman , and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene_Geary , later committed to Chester_Asylum as a homicidal maniac , but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor .

Related terms

singing_voice

3
[ noun ] (music,performing arts) an adult male with a tenor voice
4
[ adjective ] of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice

Examples

"tenor voice"

Related terms

high

5
[ adjective ] (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass

Examples

"a tenor sax"

Related terms

music high

6
[ noun ] pervading note of an utterance

Synonyms

strain

Examples

"I could follow the general tenor of his argument"

Related terms

meaning drift

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