SINGING VOICE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The musical quality of the voice while singing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("singing voice" is a kind of...):

phonation; vocalisation; vocalism; vocalization; voice; vox (the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "singing voice"):

bass; bass voice; basso (the lowest adult male singing voice)

baritone; baritone voice (the second lowest adult male singing voice)

tenor; tenor voice (the adult male singing voice above baritone)

alto; countertenor (the highest adult male singing voice)

alto; contralto (the lowest female singing voice)

mezzo; mezzo-soprano (the female singing voice between contralto and soprano)

soprano (the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty)