What does tenor mean?
Tenor means (music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto..
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/ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/ · noun
(music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto..
Colonel Walton, who had striven to check the conversation at moments when he became conscious of its tenor, now gladly engaged his guest on other and more legitimate topics.
It is the conſciouſneſs of this merited approbation and eſteem which is alone capable of ſupporting the agent in this tenour of conduct.
Along the cool sequestered vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor.
Than he shall delyuer to vs a tenour of that he ought to do.
When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor.
He would have learned , by the whole tenor of the divine law , and especially by the example of the absent Lord , whose property he was for a season trusted with , that he was to do as much good to humanity , and win as much glory to God, as was compatible with the measure of his trust, and for the time for which he might retain it.
The general tenor of the report on No. 35020 is that all the improvements in performance aimed at in the rebuilding of these engines have been achieved.
Use tenor when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tenor means (music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto..
Common synonyms include strain, high, high-pitched, tenor voice.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Colonel Walton, who had striven to check the conversation at moments when he became conscious of its tenor, now gladly engaged his guest on other and more legitimate topics.
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