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Baritone Common

Baritone has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

a male singer

"The baritone took center stage last night to perform his classic opera aria."

2

the second lowest adult male singing voice

"The choir director asked the tenors to step aside so the baritone could take the solo in the lower register."

3

the second lowest brass wind instrument

"The concert band director instructed the baritone player to adjust his slide so he wouldn't get lost in the tuba's low notes."

4

The male voice between tenor and bass

"After auditioning for the role, the director cast him as a baritone because his rich yet agile timbre fit perfectly between the higher tenors and lower basses."

Adjective
1

lower in range than tenor and higher than bass

"a baritone voice"

"baritone oboe"

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
singer singing voice brass
Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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