Tenor
['tenə] or ['tɛnɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the pitch range of the highest male voice.
(noun.) the general meaning or substance of an utterance; 'although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument'.
(noun.) a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life; 'nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways'.
(noun.) the adult male singing voice above baritone.
(noun.) an adult male with a tenor voice.
(adj.) of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice; 'tenor voice' .
(adj.) (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass; 'a tenor sax' .
Edited by Adela--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
(n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
(n.) Stamp; character; nature.
(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.
(n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.
(n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
Editor: Pierre
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Course, manner, fashion, mood, form, cast, cut, stamp, tone, tendency, character.[2]. Meaning, intent, purport, import, sense, spirit, drift, gist, significance.[3]. (Music.) Highest part (for a man's voice).
Editor: Lois
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Drift, purport, Intent, course, character, sense, stamp, meaning, effect, aim,scope, direction
ANT:unmeaningness, purposelessness, irrelevance, discursiveness, Incoherence,variance, divergence
Editor: Nell
Definition
n. continuity of state: general run or currency: purport: the higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males: the part next above the bass in a vocal quartet: one who sings tenor.—adj. pertaining to the tenor in music.—ns. Ten′or-clef the C clef placed on the fourth line; Ten′orist.
Editor: Lois
Examples
- And in that conversation—' 'It is not necessary to repeat its tenor, Bounderby. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The tenor, therefore, of their affections and feelings, must have borne the same general proportion to our own. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Such was the tenor of his public letters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The daily details of Mrs. Hatch's existence were as strange to Lily as its general tenor. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- As he neared the house, the rich tenor voice of Caliphronas rang vibrating through the still air. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I believe, as far as Henry is concerned, that was the tenor of his scarcely intelligible directions; but he may change all to-morrow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I read it in your eye; it is not of that description which promises the maintenance of an even tenor in life. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Piacenza's the toughest house to sing in the north of Italy, the other tenor said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The tenor of my actions will prove that I had rather die, than be a mark for scorn--behold the proud Evadne in her tatters! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Treble, tenor, and bass notes were to be found therein. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The harmonies which you mean are the mixed or tenor Lydian, and the full-toned or bass Lydian, and such like. Plato. The Republic.
- This tenor's name was Edgar Saunders, and he sang under the name of Edouardo Giovanni. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The Dowager for a moment gave him an angry look; but tossed it off with her head and her fan, and pursued the tenor of her way in her former manner. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The air as sung by the tenor voice would be represented by _B_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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