| English noun: tenor | 
| 1. | tenor (communication) the adult male singing voice above baritone | 
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 | Synonyms | tenor voice | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | singing voice | 
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| 2. | tenor (attribute) the pitch range of the highest male voice | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | pitch | 
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| 3. | tenor (person) an adult male with a tenor voice | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | singer, vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer | 
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 | Instance hyponym | Caruso, Domingo, Enrico Caruso, John McCormick, Lauritz Lebrecht Hommel Melchior, Lauritz Melchior, Luciano Pavarotti, McCormick, Melchior, Pavarotti, Placido Domingo | 
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| 4. | tenor (cognition) a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life | 
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 | Samples | Nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways. 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | direction | 
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| 5. | tenor (cognition) the general meaning or substance of an utterance | 
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 | Samples | Although I disagreed with him I could follow the tenor of his argument. 
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 | Synonyms | strain | 
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 | Broader (hypernym) | meaning, substance | 
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 | Narrower (hyponym) | drift, purport | 
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