English Dictionary

tenor

/tɛnə(ɹ)/

noun

(music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto. / A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.

He is a talented tenor.

意味（1）

(music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.

意味（2）

A person, instrument, or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.

意味（3）

(archaic, music) A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies.

意味（4）

The lowest tuned in a ring of bells.

意味（5）

Tone, as of a conversation.

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.

意味（6）

(obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.

It is the conſciouſneſs of this merited approbation and eſteem which is alone capable of ſupporting the agent in this tenour of conduct.

意味（7）

(linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.

意味（8）

(finance) Time to maturity of a bond.

意味（9）

Stamp; character; nature.

This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor.

意味（10）

(law) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.

Than he shall delyuer to vs a tenour of that he ought to do.

意味（11）

That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor.

意味（12）

(colloquial, music) A tenor saxophone.