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How to pronounce tenor in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms strain
Type of substance, meaning
Has types drift, purport


although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument.
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Synonyms tenor voice
Type of singing voice
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Type of vocaliser, vocalizer, singer, vocalist
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Type of direction


nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways.
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a tenor sax.
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tenor voice.
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Type of pitch

Examples of tenor

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Boyer has a big, ringing tenor that negotiated Rossini's demanding lines easily.
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He had recruited her and he was responsible for the tenor of their relationship.
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Women flocked to him because of his handsome physique and acclaimed tenor voice.
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Nemorino, to be sung by accomplished tenor Otokar Klein, is a young man in love.
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The tenor and the soprano will perform at 7 p.m. on the Great Lawn of the Frick.
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The phrase signaled a change in the tone and tenor of the civil rights movement.
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Giuseppe Filianoti brings a reliable tenor to her sweet, gawky admirer Nemorino.
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One of your last three roles should have at least one year of consecutive tenor.
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As a teenager, he also played tenor horn in the Delph brass band in Saddleworth.
From the guardian.co.uk
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  • (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass; "a tenor sax"
  • The adult male singing voice above baritone
  • The pitch range of the highest male voice
  • An adult male with a tenor voice
  • A settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life; "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"
  • The general meaning or substance of an utterance; "although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument"
  • The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C (A4) in choral music, and up to high C (C5) in solo work. ...
  • In finance, a bond is a debt security, in which the authorized issuer owes the holders a debt and, depending on the terms of the bond, is obliged to pay interest (the coupon) and/or to repay the principal at a later date, termed maturity. ...
  • * In systemic functional linguistics, the term tenor refers to the participants in a discourse, their relationships to each other, and their purposes.