baritone
Other forms: baritones
A baritone is a singer with a deep, rich voice. The male star of an opera is usually a baritone.
You can use the word baritone to mean the singer himself, or as an adjective to describe his voice. A baritone singing voice is the most common one for a man, falling in between the higher tenor and lower bass registers. Baritone comes from the Italian baritono, with its Greek root word barytonos, "deep-voiced," combining barys, "heavy or deep" and tonos, "tone."
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the second lowest adult male singing voice
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baritone voice
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singing voice
the musical quality of the voice while singing
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singing voice
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the second lowest brass wind instrument
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baritone horn
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brass, brass instrument
a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece
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brass, brass instrument
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a male singer
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lower in range than tenor and higher than bass“a baritone voice”“baritone oboe”
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low, low-pitched
used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency
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low, low-pitched
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