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   tenor

   /ˈtɛnə/

   noun

   • 1. a singing voice between baritone and alto or countertenor, the highest of the ordinary adult male range: "the Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings"
   • ▪ a singer with a tenor voice.
   • ▪ a part written for a tenor voice: "several members of the party had been able to put in the tenor and the bass"
   • 2. an instrument, especially a saxophone, trombone, tuba, or viol, of the second or third lowest pitch in its family: "a tenor sax"
   • ▪ the largest and deepest bell of a ring or set.

   Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin, based on tenere ‘to hold’; so named because the tenor part was allotted (and therefore ‘held’) the melody.

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