Dictionary Entry
descant
descant is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the main subject or plain song.
- 2intransitive verb
The upper voice in part music.
- 3intransitive verb
The canto, cantus, or soprano voice; the treble.
- 4intransitive verb
A discourse formed on its theme, like variations on a musical air; a comment or comments.
- 5intransitive verb
To sing a variation or accomplishment.
- 6intransitive verb
To comment freely; to discourse with fullness and particularity; to discourse at large.
- 7noun
a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Synonyms
- 8verb
talk at great length about something of one's interest
- 9verb
sing by changing register; sing by yodeling
"The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"
- 10verb
sing in descant
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