tenor

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.

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

The lowest tuned in a ring of bells.

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.

Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.

He has a tenor voice.

Many a star athlete has very little hair anywhere except what he wears on top of his head, and a voice that is absolutely tenor.