tenor

1. 1.

   (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass

   “a tenor sax”

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   music

2. 2.

   of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice

   “tenor voice”

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Other forms of tenor

plural

tenors·

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 tenor

What does tenor mean?

tenor means "the adult male singing voice above baritone". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tenor?

tenor has 2 syllables: ten-or. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /ˈtɛnɚ/.

What is another word for tenor?

Close synonyms include tenor voice, strain. 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 tenor a common word?

tenor 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.

What rhymes with tenor?

2 words rhyme with tenor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.