tenor

/tˈɛnɚ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. the adult male singing voice above baritone
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”

adjective

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”

Synonyms for tenor

• tenor voice
• strain
• high

Words that rhyme with tenor

• countertenor
• tenner
• behner
• benner
• brenner
• cohenour
• coughenour
• dehner
• denner
• fenner
• flenner
• gwenore
• heldentenor
• henner
• kenner
• lehner
• lennar
• mehner
• menor
• misbrener
• penner
• renner
• senner
• sensenbrenner
• sklenar
• spenner
• steinbrenner
• stenner
• tener
• venner