tenor

tenor is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
2. noun. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
3. noun. Stamp; character; nature.
4. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
7. noun. the pitch range of the highest male voice
8. noun. the general meaning or substance of an utterance

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

   Synonyms: strain

9. noun. a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life

   "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"

10. noun. the adult male singing voice above baritone
11. noun. an adult male with a tenor voice
12. adjective. of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice

    "tenor voice"

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

    "a tenor sax"

Synonyms

strain

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tenor:

noter, notre, toner, trone

Common word forms

tenors, tenorless

Words from these letters

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