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What's The Definition Of Tenor?
[n] the pitch range of the highest male voice
[n] pervading note of an utterance; "I could follow the general tenor of his argument" [n] the adult male singing voice above baritone [n] an adult male with a tenor voice [adj] of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice; "tenor voice" [adj] (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass; "a tenor sax" Synonyms | Synonyms for Tenor: high | high-pitched | strain | tenor voice Related Terms | Find terms related to Tenor: See Also | Caruso | Domingo | drift | Enrico Caruso | high frequency | high pitch | John McCormick | Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel Melchior | Lauritz Melchior | Luciano Pavarotti | McCormick | meaning | Melchior | Pavarotti | Placido Domingo | purport | singer | singing voice | substance | vocaliser | vocalist | vocalizer Tenor In Webster's Dictionary \Ten"or\, n. [L., from tenere to hold; hence, properly, a
holding on in a continued course: cf. F. teneur. See
{Tenable}, and cf. {Tenor} a kind of voice.]
1. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of
continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course;
career.
Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept
the noiseless tenor of their away. --Gray.
2. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse;
the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent;
meaning; understanding.
When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor.
--Shak.
Does not the whole tenor of the divine law
positively require humility and meekness to all men?
--Spart.
3. Stamp; character; nature.
This success would look like chance, if it were
perpetual, and always of the same tenor. --Dryden.
4. (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.
--Bouvier.
5. [F. t['e]nor, L. tenor, properly, a holding; -- so called
because the tenor was the voice which took and held the
principal part, the plain song, air, or tune, to which the
other voices supplied a harmony above and below: cf. It.
tenore.] (Mus.)
(a) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually
belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the
harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four
parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base,
and originally the air, to which the other parts were
auxillary.
(b) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that
play it.
{Old Tenor}, {New Tenor}, {Middle Tenor}, different
descriptions of paper money, issued at different periods,
by the American colonial governments in the last century.
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