countertenor
Use Countertenor in a sentence
tərˌtɛn noun Music.
1.
an adult male voice or voice part higher than the tenor.
2.
a singer with such a voice; a high tenor.
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| —n | |
| 1. | an adult male voice with an alto range |
| 2. | a singer with such a voice |
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Countertenor
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Each cycle has solos for countertenor and soprano flanked by choruses.
His father was a locally famous countertenor, but in fact the entire family was talented and the house never silent.
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