FALSETTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does falsetto mean? 

• FALSETTO (noun)
  The noun FALSETTO has 1 sense:

1. a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register

  Familiarity information: FALSETTO used as a noun is very rare.

• FALSETTO (adjective)
  The adjective FALSETTO has 1 sense:

1. artificially high; above the normal voice range

  Familiarity information: FALSETTO used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSETTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("falsetto" is a kind of...):

head register; head tone; head voice (the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head)

Derivation:

falsetto (artificially high; above the normal voice range)

• FALSETTO (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Artificially high; above the normal voice range

Context example:

a falsetto voice

Similar:

high; high-pitched (used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency)

Derivation:

falsetto (a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register)

 Context examples 

When it was over, and Mugridge was back in the galley, he became greasily radiant, and went about his work, humming coster songs in a nerve-racking and discordant falsetto.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)