TENOR VOICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenor voice mean? 

• TENOR VOICE (noun)
  The noun TENOR VOICE has 1 sense:

1. the adult male singing voice above baritone

  Familiarity information: TENOR VOICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENOR VOICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The adult male singing voice above baritone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

tenor; tenor voice

Hypernyms ("tenor voice" is a kind of...):

singing voice (the musical quality of the voice while singing)

 Context examples 

Then some deep-water sailor, from the waist of the ship, lifted a rich tenor voice in the “Song of the Trade Wind”:

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)