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COUNTER TENOR

Definition: COUNTER TENOR

COUNTER TENOR

1. One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Counter tenor \Coun"ter ten`or\. [Old French contreteneur. Compare to Contratenor, and see Tenora part in music.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: COUNTER TENOR

English words defined with "COUNTER TENOR": Contratenor. (references)
Etymologies containing "COUNTER TENOR": Contratenor. (references)

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Commercial Usage: COUNTER TENOR

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chinese Lyrics: Set Two, for Contralto (or Counter Tenor) and Piano (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COUNTER TENOR

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

counter counter tenor tenor

34

counter tenor

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: COUNTER TENOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: countertenor.

Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-n-o-o-r-r-t-t-u"

-2 letters: rencounter.

-3 letters: encounter, recontour, recounter, rencontre, renouncer.

-4 letters: cretonne, nocturne, notturno, renounce, rotenone, rottener, trecento, trouncer.

-5 letters: centner, coenure, connote, content, contort, contour, cornute, cornuto, coroner, coronet, counter, courter, crooner, crouton, curette, current, ecotone, enounce, enteron, erector, neurone, neutron, nocturn, recount, reroute, reutter, tenoner, torrent, torture, trounce, utterer.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-n-o-o-r-r-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: countertenors.

 

+3 letters: counterreaction.

 

+4 letters: counterreactions.

 

+5 letters: countergovernment, counterrevolution.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: COUNTER TENOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 55 4E 54 45 52      54 45 4E 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01010101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010100 01000101 01001110 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#85 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0055 004E 0054 0045 0052      0054 0045 004E 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3749554854395225439484952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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