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tenor

noun as in high male voice

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The tenor saxophonist was one of the most imaginatively restless artists to ever work a bandstand.

There was never any one criterion for how every trombone or tenor saxophone or singer should sound.

Feeling the tenor of the day shift, he asked: “Are you okay?”

It is the desolation of exiled Tibetans that dominates the tenor here, but it is not the only one.

“I would expect that,” he says in a soft tenor voice, with the hint of a Southern lilt.

The tenor dies; the prima donna appears to do the same, but the libretto consoles you by declaring that she only swoons.

The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.

These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.

In the metal of the tenor several coins are visible, one being a Spanish dollar of 1742.

He passed them by, and haughty tenor and swaggering basso again took heart of grace.

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On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tenor, such as: gist, mood, theme, tone, aim, and body.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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