mezzo-soprano

Questions about mezzo-soprano

What does mezzo-soprano mean?

mezzo-soprano means "a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mezzo-soprano?

mezzo-soprano has 5 syllables: mez-zo--so-pra-no. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for mezzo-soprano?

Close synonyms include mezzo, mezzo. 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 mezzo-soprano a common word?

mezzo-soprano 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.