HEAD VOICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does head voice mean? 

• HEAD VOICE (noun)
  The noun HEAD VOICE 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 VOICE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAD VOICE (noun)

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 voice" 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 voice"):

falsetto (a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register)