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contralto

/kuhn-tral-toh/US // kənˈtræl toʊ //UK // (kənˈtræltəʊ, -ˈtrɑːl-) //

男中音,中音,高音,高音部

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural con·tral·tos.

    • : the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor.
    • : the alto, or highest male voice or voice part.
    • : a singer with a contralto voice.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to the contralto voice or its compass.

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Examples

  • 'My Lord, What a Night'Two gifted originals in divergent pursuits — music and physics — come together in this Ford’s Theatre production, based on the true story of the friendship between contralto Marian Anderson and scientist Albert Einstein.

  • That is not an instrument for the production of tones in the contralto compass.

  • What she sang he did not know, but her deep contralto, holding heaven in its tones, he both knew and understood.

  • The contralto and I were talking about it one day on the train and saying how glad we should be to get away from it.

  • With that there smote on our ears the sounds of two voices in altercation outside—one a woman's high contralto.

  • Through the warm air, heavy with the perfume of flowers, floated the contralto voice of Dolores.