chest register

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   the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing

   Synonymschest voicechest tone

   Broaderregister

Questions about chest register

What does chest register mean?

chest register means "the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing".

What is another word for chest register?

Close synonyms include chest voice, chest tone. 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 chest register a common word?

chest register is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.