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The Meaning of tenor

  • (n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
  • (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
  • (n.) Stamp; character; nature.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.

Homophones

tener , tenner

Rhymes

behner , benner , brenner , center , cohenour , coughenour , countertenor , dehner , denner , enter , gwenore , heldentenor , henner , jenner , kenner , lehner , lennar , mehner , renner , sennar , senner , sklenar , spenner , stenner , tener , tenner , wehner , wenner , zehner , zenner , zenor