tenor
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Is tenor a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (music) A musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.countableuncountable
2. (archaic, music) A musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus and contratenor altus, who perform countermelodies.archaiccountableuncountable
3. (obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.Examples: "It is the conſciouſneſs of this merited approbation and eſteem which is alone capable of ſupporting the agent in this tenour of conduct."; "Along the cool sequestered vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way."countableobsoleteuncountable
4. (linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.countableuncountable
5. (finance) Time to maturity of a bond.countableuncountable
6. (law) 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.Examples: "Than he shall delyuer to vs a tenour of that he ought to do."countableuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary