tenor
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the adult male singing voice above baritone
Types & categories
- singing voice hypernym
Sense 2 adjective
(of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass
a tenor sax
Related & opposite
- music domain topic
- high-pitched similar to
Sense 3 noun
the pitch range of the highest male voice
Types & categories
- pitch hypernym
Sense 4 adjective
of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice
tenor voice
Related & opposite
- high-pitched similar to
Sense 5 noun
an adult male with a tenor voice
Types & categories
Sense 6 noun
a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life
nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways
Types & categories
- direction hypernym
Sense 7 noun
the general meaning or substance of an utterance
although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument
Types & categories
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | singing voice |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | music |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | high-pitched |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | pitch |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | high-pitched |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | singer |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Caruso |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Domingo |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | John McCormick |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Melchior |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Pavarotti |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | direction |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | meaning |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | purport |