Falsetto

4 definitions found

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

  high-pitched \high-pitched\ adj.
     1. high in pitch or frequency; -- used of sounds and voices.
        Opposite of {low}. [Narrower terms: {adenoidal, pinched,
        nasal}; {altissimo}; {alto}; {countertenor, alto};
        {falsetto}; {peaky, spiky}; {piping}; {shrill, sharp};
        {screaky, screechy, squeaking, squeaky, squealing};


        {soprano, treble}; {sopranino}; {tenor}]
  
     Syn: high.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. set at a sharp or high angle or slant; as, a high-pitched
        roof.
  
     Syn: steeply pitched, steep.
          [WordNet 1.5] high-power

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

  Falsetto \Fal*set"to\, n.; pl. {Falsettos}. [It. falsetto, dim.
     fr. L. falsus. See {False}.]
     A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies
     above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto
     voice. See {Head voice}, under {Voice}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  falsetto
       adj : artificially high; above the normal voice range; "a falsetto
             voice"
       n : a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an
           upper register

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

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "falsetto":
     alto, aphonia, artificial voice, baritone, bass, bourdon, bravura,
     broken speech, broken tones, broken voice, burden, chest voice,
     childish treble, choked voice, choral, choric, coloratura,
     countertenor, cracked voice, croak, crow, dramatic, drone,
     drone bass, dysarthria, dyslalia, dyslogia, dysphasia, dysphonia,
     dysphrasia, harshness, hawking voice, head register, head tone,
     head voice, heroic, high, high-pitched, high-sounding, high-toned,
     hiss, hoarseness, hymnal, idioglossia, idiolalia,
     impairment of speech, lisp, lisping, liturgical, loss of voice,
     lyric, male alto, mezzo-soprano, muzzy speech, nasal tone,
     nasalization, operatic, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, quaver,
     sacred, shake, sibilation, singing, soprano, speech defect,
     speech impediment, tenor, treble, tremor, twang, vocal, voce,
     voce di petto, voce di testa, voice