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HEAD REGISTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does head register mean?
• HEAD REGISTER (noun)
The noun HEAD REGISTER has 1 sense:
1. the higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
Familiarity information: HEAD REGISTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The higher ranges of the voice in speaking or singing; the vibrations of sung notes are felt in the head
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
head register; head tone; head voice
Hypernyms ("head register" is a kind of...):
register ((music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "head register"):
falsetto (a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register)
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