1. The adult male singing voice above baritone
   "The tenor voice soared in the high notes of the aria";
   - tenor voice
    
2. An adult male with a tenor voice
   "The tenor's high notes soared above the orchestra"
    
3. A settled, prevailing or habitual course of a person's life
   "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"
    
4. The general meaning or substance of an utterance
   "although I disagreed with him, I could follow the tenor of his argument";
   - strain

1. Of or close in range to the highest natural adult male voice
   "tenor voice"
    
2. (of a musical instrument) intermediate between alto and baritone or bass
   "a tenor sax"

Sounds like: tenderness, tend, tenor

Derived forms: tenors

See also: high, high-pitched

Type of: direction, meaning, singer, singing voice, substance, vocaliser [Brit], vocalist, vocalizer

Encyclopedia: Tenor