baritone

1. 1.

   lower in range than tenor and higher than bass

   “a baritone voice”

   “baritone oboe”

   Similarlow

Other forms of baritone

plural

baritones·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about baritone

What does baritone mean?

baritone means "a male singer". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in baritone?

baritone has 3 syllables: bar-i-tone. The stress falls on "bar". In IPA it is /ˈbɛɹəˌtoʊn/.

What is another word for baritone?

Close synonyms include barytone, baritone voice, baritone horn. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is baritone a common word?

baritone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with baritone?

8 words rhyme with baritone. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.