Usually means: High voice range below soprano.
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  1. alto: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. alto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alto, alto-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alto: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alto, alto: Wordnik
  7. alto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Alto, alto, alto-: Wiktionary
  9. alto, alto-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alto: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. alto, alto-: Dictionary.com
  13. alto: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. alto: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ALTO (XML), ALTO (film), ALTO (interbank network), ALTO, Alto (computer), Alto (disambiguation), Alto (voice), Alto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Alto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. alto: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. alto: Rhymezone
  19. alto, alto, alto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. alto: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. alto, alto-: MyWord.info
  22. alto: Free Dictionary
  23. alto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. alto, alto-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. alto: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. alto: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. alto-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Alto, Alto: Futures and Options Market Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alto (voice), alto: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ALTO: Acronym Finder
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  1. alto: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See altos as well.)

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noun:  A musical part or section higher than tenor and lower than soprano, formerly the part that performed a countermelody above the tenor or main melody.
noun:  A person or musical instrument that performs the alto part.
noun:  (colloquial, music) An alto saxophone.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
noun:  (aerospace) initialism of air launch to orbit.

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