Definitions for barytone

barytone bar·y·tone

Spelling: [bar-i-tohn]
IPA: /ˈbær ɪˌtoʊn/

Barytone is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 399 anagrams from letters in barytone (abenorty).

Definitions for barytone

noun

  1. a barytone word.
  2. a male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
  3. a singer with such a voice.
  4. a large, valved brass instrument shaped like a trumpet or coiled in oval form, used especially in military bands.

adjective

  1. having the last syllable unaccented.
  2. of or relating to a baritone; having the compass of a baritone.

noun, adjective

  1. baritone.

Origin of barytone

1820-30; Greek barýtonos, equivalent to barý(s) heavy, deep (of sound) + tónos tone

Examples for barytone

So marked is this that the boy soprano may actually become a barytone, or, unfortunately, no longer have a singing voice at all.

This went far enough for attention to the music and the barytone.

When she spoke it was in a man's barytone, which, when agitated, broke into a sobbing squeak.

In barytone voices the whole glottis is often open to , and occasionally to .

barytone called while I was out with Miss J. yesterday on business.

The barytone was still singing; but now it was "I'm twenty-one, and she's eighteen."

In the second-story front room at Mrs. McKee's, the barytone slept heavily, and made divers unvocal sounds.

Still the barytone, who was almost as fond of conversation as of what he termed "vocal."

Another variety of the gamba was the barytone, which was cultivated in the last century.

From this description it is evident that the barytone was a bass instrument resembling the Viola damore.

Word Value for barytone
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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