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(music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. / A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.

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tenor

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Source Word

tenor

IPA(Pronunciation)

/tɛnə(ɹ)/

Noun

countable uncountable archaic obsolete colloquial

(music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. / A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.

Japanese Meaning

音楽用語として、低いバスよりも高く高いアルトよりも低い声部や楽器の範囲を指す。 / その範囲で演奏・歌唱する人、楽器、またはグループを示す。

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合唱団のテノール声部がバスより上でアルトより下の旋律を担当し、その賛美歌に温かく豊かな響きを与えた。

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(music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.

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A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.

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The lowest tuned in a ring of bells.

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Tone, as of a conversation.

Colonel Walton, who had striven to check the conversation at moments when he became conscious of its tenor, now gladly engaged his guest on other and more legitimate topics.

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(obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.

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(linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.

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(finance) Time to maturity of a bond.

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Stamp; character; nature.

This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor.

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(law) 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.