- tenor - (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass; "a tenor sax"
Antonyms: low, low-pitched (indirect, via high)
- tenor - of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice; "tenor voice"
Antonyms: low, low-pitched (indirect, via high)
- tenor, tenor voice - the adult male singing voice above baritone
--1 is a kind of singing voice
- tenor - the pitch range of the highest male voice
--2 is a kind of high pitch, high frequency
- tenor - an adult male with a tenor voice
--3 is a kind of singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser
--3 has particulars:Caruso, Enrico Caruso; Domingo, Placido Domingo; McCormick, John McCormick; Melchior, Lauritz Melchior, Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel Melchior; Pavarotti, Luciano Pavarotti - tenor, strain - pervading note of an utterance; "I could follow the general tenor of his argument"
--4 is a kind of meaning, substance
--4 has particulars: drift, purport - tenor - an adult male with a tenor voice