timbre (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *timbre*:
NOUN	attribute	timbre, timber, quality, tone	(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

timbre > pronunciation
Sounds	tih'mber
Rhymes	absorber ... weber / Weber: 72 rhymes with ber...

English > *timbre*: 1 sense > noun 1, attribute
Meaning	(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).
Example	"the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"
Synonyms	timber, quality, tone
Category	music	An artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
Narrower	color, colour, coloration, colouration	The timbre of a musical sound
	harmonic	Any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
	nasality	A quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
	plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy	Having the character of a loud deep sound
	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
	resonance	The quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities
	shrillness, stridence, stridency	Having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
Broader	sound property	An attribute of sound
Spanish	cualidad, timbre
Catalan	qualitat, timbre

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