BASS VOICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bass voice mean? 

• BASS VOICE (noun)
  The noun BASS VOICE has 1 sense:

1. the lowest adult male singing voice

  Familiarity information: BASS VOICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASS VOICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lowest adult male singing voice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bass; bass voice; basso

Hypernyms ("bass voice" is a kind of...):

singing voice (the musical quality of the voice while singing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass voice"):

basso profundo (a very deep bass voice)

 Context examples 

Oh! he has a fine bass voice, and an excellent taste for music.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was called, as I remember, “The Briton Conquers but to Save,” and he rolled it out in a very fair bass voice, the others joining in the chorus, and clapping vigorously when he finished.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He, for it was a man, turned his head slowly towards where I stood, and having examined me with the two inquisitive-looking grey eyes which twinkled under a pair of bushy brows, said solemnly, and in a bass voice, Her size is small: what is her age?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)