Usually means: Lowest female singing voice range.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. contralto: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contralto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contralto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contralto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contralto: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contralto, contralto: Wordnik
  7. contralto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contralto: Wiktionary
  9. contralto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contralto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contralto: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. contralto: Dictionary.com
  13. contralto: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contralto: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Contralto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Contralto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. contralto: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. contralto: Rhymezone
  19. Contralto, contralto, contralto (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. contralto: Free Dictionary
  21. contralto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. contralto: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. contralto: Encyclopedia

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  1. Contralto: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (music) The lowest female voice or voice part, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. The terms contralto and alto refer to the same musical pitch range, but among singers, the term contralto is reserved for female singers; the equivalent male form is counter-tenor. Originally the contratenor altus was a high countermelody sung against the tenor or main melody.

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