tenor

Definitions

1. 1noun

   A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.

2. 2noun

   That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

3. 3noun

   Stamp; character; nature.

4. 4noun

   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.

5. 5noun

   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.

6. 6noun

   A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.

7. 7noun

   the pitch range of the highest male voice

8. 8noun

   the general meaning or substance of an utterance

   "although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument"

   Synonyms

   strain
9. 9noun

   a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life

   "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"

10. 10noun

    the adult male singing voice above baritone

11. 11noun

    an adult male with a tenor voice

12. 12adjective

    of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice

    "tenor voice"

13. 13adjective

    (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass

    "a tenor sax"