chest voice

1. 1.

   the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing

   Synonymschest registerchest tone

   Broaderregister

Questions about chest voice

What does chest voice mean?

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

What is another word for chest voice?

Close synonyms include chest register, 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 voice a common word?

chest voice 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.