chest tone

1. 1.

   the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing

   Synonymschest registerchest voice

   Broaderregister

Questions about chest tone

What does chest tone mean?

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

What is another word for chest tone?

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

chest tone 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.