TENOR

• (noun) the pitch range of the highest male voice

• (noun) the general meaning or substance of an utterance

  "although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument"

  synonyms : strain

• (noun) a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life

  "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"

• (noun) the adult male singing voice above baritone

  synonyms : tenor voice

• (noun) an adult male with a tenor voice

• (adj.) of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice

  "tenor voice"

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

  "a tenor sax"

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