descant
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Types & categories
- musical accompaniment hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
sing in descant
Types & categories
- sing hypernym
Related & opposite
- descant derivation
Sense 3 verb
sing by changing register; sing by yodeling
The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains
Types & categories
- sing hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
talk at great length about something of one's interest
Types & categories
- discourse hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | yodel |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | descant |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | musical accompaniment |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | descant |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sing |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | yodeling |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | descant |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | yodel |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | yodeller |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | sing |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | discourse |