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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"

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, 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

Sounds like: tenderness, tend, tenor

Derived forms: tenors

See also: high, high-pitched

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

Encyclopedia: Tenor