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SINGING VOICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The musical quality of the voice while singing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("singing voice" is a kind of...):
phonation; vocalisation; vocalism; vocalization; voice; vox (the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "singing voice"):
bass; bass voice; basso (the lowest adult male singing voice)
baritone; baritone voice (the second lowest adult male singing voice)
tenor; tenor voice (the adult male singing voice above baritone)
alto; countertenor (the highest adult male singing voice)
alto; contralto (the lowest female singing voice)
mezzo; mezzo-soprano (the female singing voice between contralto and soprano)
soprano (the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty)
