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1. The adult male singing voice above baritone
   - tenor voice
    
2. The pitch range of the highest male voice
    
3. An adult male with a tenor voice
    
4. A settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life
   "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"
    
5. The general meaning or substance of an utterance
   "although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument"
   - strain

1. (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass
   "a tenor sax"
    
2. Of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice
   "tenor voice"

Sounds like: tenner

Derived forms: tenors

See also: high, high-pitched

Type of: direction, meaning, pitch, singer, singing voice, substance, vocaliser [Brit], vocalist, vocalizer

Encyclopedia: Tenor