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Noun: bass  beys
  1. The lowest part of the musical range
     
  2. The lowest part in polyphonic music
    - bass part
     
  3. An adult male singer with the lowest voice
    - basso
     
  4. The lowest adult male singing voice
    - bass voice, basso
     
  5. The member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
Adjective: bass  beys
  1. Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
    "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet";
    - deep
Noun: bass[2]  bas
  1. Nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
     
  2. Any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
    - freshwater bass
     
  3. The lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
    - sea bass

Sounds like: base

Derived forms: basses

See also: low, low-pitched

Type of: freshwater fish, instrument, musical instrument, part, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, pitch, saltwater fish, singer, singing voice, vocaliser [Brit], vocalist, vocalizer, voice

Part of: freshwater bass, sea bass

Encyclopedia: Bass, Michael