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English

Etymology

From {{term|tenor||holder|lang=la}}, from {{term|tenere||hold}} In music, from the notion of the one who holds the melody as opposed to the countertenor.

Pronunciation

IPA: /tɛnə(ɹ)/
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-tenor.ogg
An audio transcript can be found at en-uk-tenor.ogg

Homophones

tenner

Noun

musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies.
musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. Also a person, instrument, or group that performs in that range.
tone, as in "I don't like the tenor of this conversation."
The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.

Translations

Danish: {{t-|da|tenor|c}}
Finnish:

Hungarian:

Danish: tone , mening , hovedindhold , indhold
Finnish:

Hungarian:

: tenor
: ténor (2)
: Tenor (1,2,3)

: tenore
: karyisterem
: tenor
:
: bè têno (?)
: person: giọng nam cao; instrument: kèn têno
: tinh thần chung

Adjective

of or pertaining to the tenor part or range
: He has a tenor voice.

Translations

Hungarian:

Vietnamese: nam cao

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Danish

Noun

tenor (musical range, person, instrument or group performing in the tenor range)

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Latin

Noun

tenor, tenoris m

holder

Related terms

Category:Musical Voices and Registers

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tenor \Ten"or\, n. [L., from tenere to hold; hence, properly, a
holding on in a continued course: cf. F. teneur. See
Tenable, and cf. Tenor a kind of voice.]
1. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of
continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course;
career.
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Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their away. --Gray.
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2. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse;
the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent;
meaning; understanding.
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When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor.
--Shak.
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Does not the whole tenor of the divine law
positively require humility and meekness to all men?
--Spart.
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3. Stamp; character; nature.
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This success would look like chance, if it were
perpetual, and always of the same tenor. --Dryden.
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4. (Law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words
and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only
the substance or general import of the instrument.
--Bouvier.
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5. [F. t['e]nor, L. tenor, properly, a holding; -- so called
because the tenor was the voice which took and held the
principal part, the plain song, air, or tune, to which the
other voices supplied a harmony above and below: cf. It.
tenore.] (Mus.)
(a) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually
belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the
harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four
parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base,
and originally the air, to which the other parts were
auxillary.
(b) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that
play it.
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Old Tenor, New Tenor, Middle Tenor, different
descriptions of paper money, issued at different periods,
by the American colonial governments in the last century.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English high-pitched \high-pitched\ adj.
1. high in pitch or frequency; -- used of sounds and voices.
Opposite of low. [Narrower terms: {adenoidal, pinched,
nasal}; altissimo; alto; countertenor, alto;
falsetto; peaky, spiky; piping; shrill, sharp;
screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing;
soprano, treble; sopranino; tenor]

Syn: high.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. set at a sharp or high angle or slant; as, a high-pitched
roof.

Syn: steeply pitched, steep.
[WordNet 1.5] high-power

WordNet tenor
adj 1: (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and
baritone or bass; "a tenor sax"
2: of or close in range to the highest natural adult male
voice; "tenor voice"
n 1: the adult male singing voice above baritone [syn: {tenor
voice}]
2: the pitch range of the highest male voice
3: an adult male with a tenor voice
4: pervading note of an utterance; "I could follow the general
tenor of his argument" [syn: strain]

Moby Dictionary
Heldentenor , Meistersinger , Zeitgeist , accompaniment ,
affective meaning , aim , alto , apograph , aria singer , azimuth ,
baritenor , baritone , bass , basso , basso buffo , basso cantante ,
basso continuo , basso ostinato , basso profundo , bassus , bearing ,
bent , bias , blues singer , body , body-build , brand , bravura , canary ,
cantatrice , canto , cantor , cantus , cantus figuratus , cantus planus ,
carbon , carbon copy , caroler , cast , chanter , chantress , character ,
characteristic , characteristics , choral , choric , coloratura ,
coloratura soprano , coloring , comic bass , complexion , composition ,
connotation , consequence , constituents , constitution , continuo ,
contralto , core , countertenor , course , crasis , crooner , current ,
deep bass , denotation , descant , dharma , diathesis , direction ,
direction line , disposition , diva , dramatic , dramatic soprano ,
drift , drone , effect , essence , ethos , extension , falsetto , fashion ,
fiber , fiche , figured bass , force , form , frame , genius , gist ,
glacial movement , grain , grammatical meaning , ground bass , guise ,
habit , head register , head tone , head voice , heading , helmsmanship ,
heroic , heroic tenor , high , high-pitched , high-sounding ,
high-toned , hue , humor , humors , hymnal , hymner , idea , ilk , impact ,
implication , import , improvisator , inclination , inference ,
intension , intent , kind , lay , lead singer , lexical meaning , lie ,
lieder singer , line , line of direction , line of march ,
literal meaning , liturgical , lyric , main current , mainstream ,
makeup , male alto , manifold , manner , meaning , meat , melodist ,
mezzo-soprano , microcopy , microfiche , microform , mode , mold , mood ,
motion , movement , nature , navigation , opera singer , operatic ,
orientation , overtone , part , pertinence , physique , piloting , pith ,
plain chant , plain song , point , practical consequence , prick song ,
prima donna , property , psalm singer , psalmic , psalmodial ,
psalmodic , purport , purpose , quality , quarter , range ,
range of meaning , real meaning , recording , reference , referent ,
relation , relevance , rock-and-roll singer , rubbing , run , sacred ,
scope , semantic cluster , semantic field , sense , set , shape ,
significance , signification , significatum , signifie , singer ,
singing , singstress , somatotype , songbird , songster , songstress ,
soprano , sort , span of meaning , spirit , stamp , steerage , steering ,
streak , stream , stripe , structural meaning , stuff , style ,
substance , suchness , sum , sum and substance , swing ,
symbolic meaning , system , temper , temperament , tendency ,
the general tendency , the main course , theme , thorough bass ,
thread , time spirit , tone , torch singer , totality of associations ,
tracing , track , transcript , transcription , transfer ,
transferred meaning , treble , trend , turn , type , unadorned meaning ,
undersong , undertone , value , vein , vocal , vocalist , vocalizer ,
voice , voice part , warbler , way , yodeler

TENOR, pleading. This word, applied to an instrument in pleading, signifies an exact copy; it differs from purport. (q.v.) 2 Phil. Ev. 99; 2 Russ. on Cr. 365; 1, Chit. Cr. Law, 235; 1 Mass. 203; 1 East, R. 180, and the cases cited in the notes. In chancery practice, by tenor is understood a certified copy of records of other courts removed into chancery by certiorari. Gresl. Ev. 309.