Meaning

• 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.

• Duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.

• The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.

• Time to maturity of a bond.

• Stamp; character; nature.

• An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.

• That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

• A tenor saxophone.

Meaning

• Of or pertaining to the tenor part or range.

  "He has a tenor voice."