Contralto

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  • noun. The lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate in range between soprano and tenor.
  • noun. A woman having a contralto voice.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In modern music, the voice intermediate in quality and range between soprano and tenor, having a usual compass of about two octaves upward from the F below middle C; the lowest of the varieties of the female voice.
  • noun. A singer with a contralto voice.
  • Pertaining to, or possessed of the quality of, a contralto: as, a contralto voice.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
  • noun. the voice or singer performing this part.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The lowest female voice or voice part, higher than tenor and lower than soprano. The terms contralto and alto refer to a similar musical pitch, but among singers, the term contralto is reserved for female singers; the equivalent male form is counter-tenor. Originally the contratenor altus was a high countermelody sung against the tenor or main melody.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or being the lowest female voice
  • noun. the lowest female singing voice
  • noun. a woman singer having a contralto voice
    • Word Usage
    "But the title-rôle in the original Italian version was written for, and sung by, Guadagni, an artificial contralto (_contralto musico_)."
    Equivalent
    low  low-pitched  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    singing voice  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    a  a-tingle  alto  baritone  barytone  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Heldentenor  Meistersinger  accompaniment  alto  aria singer  
    variant
    contralti  
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