Mezzo

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mezzo \Mez"zo\, a. [It., from L. medius middle, half. See {Mid},
     a.] (Mus.)
     Mean; not extreme.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  mezzo
       n 1: a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto [syn: {mezzo-soprano}]
       2: the female singing voice between contralto and soprano [syn:
           {mezzo-soprano}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "mezzo":
     amidships, average, central, core, equatorial, equidistant,
     halfway, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial,
     median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mid, middle,
     middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway,
     nuclear