noun. A male singer castrated before puberty so as to retain a soprano or alto voice.

noun. A male person emasculated during childhood for the purpose of preventing the change of voice which naturally occurs at puberty; an artificial or male soprano.

noun. A male person castrated for the purpose of improving his voice for singing; an artificial, or male, soprano.

noun. A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice.

noun. A male soprano or alto voice produced by castration of the treble singer before puberty, intended to conserve his voice; the singer.

adjective. Castrated; especially castrated prepubescently.

adjective. Having, using or containing the voice of a castrato (noun).

adjective. Originally composed for a castrato.

noun. a male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice

"In many ways, the castrato is the corporeal manifestation of Longinus 'theory of the sublime, in which hypsous requires a synthesis of nature and art that cannot be reduced either to capacity or to will."

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