soprano

1. 1.

   having or denoting a high range

   “soprano voice”

   “soprano sax”

   “the boy still had a fine treble voice”

   “the treble clef”

   Synonymstreble

   Similarhigh

Other forms of soprano

plural

soprani

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 soprano

What does soprano mean?

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

How many syllables are in soprano?

soprano has 3 syllables: so-pra-no. The stress falls on "pra". In IPA it is /səˈpɹɑnoʊ/.

What is another word for soprano?

Close synonyms include treble, treble. 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 soprano a common word?

soprano is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.