Definitions for tenor

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tenor ten·or

Spelling: [ten-er]

IPA: /ˈtɛn ər/

Tenor is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in tenor (enort).

Definitions for tenor

noun

1. the course of thought or meaning that runs through something written or spoken; purport; drift.
2. continuous course, progress, or movement.
3. Rhetoric. the subject of a metaphor, as “she” in “She is a rose.”. Compare vehicle (def 8).
4. Music. the adult male voice intermediate between the bass and the alto or countertenor. a part sung by or written for such a voice, especially the next to the lowest part in four-part harmony. a singer with such a voice. an instrument corresponding in compass to this voice, especially the viola. the lowest-toned bell of a peal.
5. quality, character, or condition.

adjective

1. Music. of, relating to, or having the compass of a tenor.

Origin of tenor

1250-1300; Medieval Latin, Latin: course, continuity, tone, equivalent to ten(ēre) to hold + -or -or¹; replacing Middle English ten(o)ur Anglo-French Latin,

Examples for tenor

It is the desolation of exiled Tibetans that dominates the tenor here, but it is not the only one.

The tenor saxophonist was one of the most imaginatively restless artists to ever work a bandstand.

O that like thine were the tenor of my life, like thine the tenor of my conversation!

There was never any one criterion for how every trombone or tenor saxophone or singer should sound.

The harmonies which you mean are the mixed or tenor Lydian, and the full-toned or bass Lydian, and such like.

Irish tenor Ronan Tynan sang at both services, just as he had so many times in New York after 9/11.

As the tenor of them may not have been very intelligible, allow me to repeat.

Feeling the tenor of the day shift, he asked: “Are you okay?”

The tenor of his thoughts caused him to abandon his caution.

Tall and very dark, he looked unlike the ideal Wagner tenor.