Contralto

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Music The lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate in range between soprano and tenor.
  • n. Music A woman having a contralto voice.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The lowest female voice or voice part, higher than tenor and lower than soprano. The terms contralto and alto refer to a similar musical pitch, but among singers, the term contralto is reserved for female singers; the equivalent male form is counter-tenor. Originally the contratenor altus was a high countermelody sung against the tenor or main melody.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
  • n. the voice or singer performing this part.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In modern music, the voice intermediate in quality and range between soprano and tenor, having a usual compass of about two octaves upward from the F below middle C; the lowest of the varieties of the female voice.
  • n. A singer with a contralto voice.
  • Pertaining to, or possessed of the quality of, a contralto: as, a contralto voice.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of or being the lowest female voice
  • n. the lowest female singing voice
  • n. a woman singer having a contralto voice
    • Equivalent
    low-pitched    low   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    singing voice   
    Variant
    contralti   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    baritone    soprano    tenor    timbre    purr   
     
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