baritone

Examples

• All

• ...the famous Colombian baritone, Señor Carlos Ramirez.

  Bathing Beauty (1944)

• Or did you just fall in love with the velvet baritone of my voice?

  Standoff (2016)

• I sang lead baritone all through high school.

  Just Mercy (2019)

• Jack started singing in a croaky baritone, "Happy Birthday to Jack," then stopped.

  Fiction book (1993)

• "Huh," he said, in a cracked baritone, a little hoarse with age.

  Fiction book (1999)

• I was a baritone.

  Playback (2012)

• Best known for his rich baritone voice, he had a very competitive romance... ...with Betty Hutton in Annie Get Your Gun.

  That's Entertainment! III (1994)

• "My apologies, gentlemen," said Treadwell in his robust baritone, offering a huge, well-manicured hand to Professor Daimler.

  Fiction book (1995)

• I did my best to imitate Arthur's soothing baritone, but my voice broke, wavered.

  Fiction book (1997)

• As a member of the choir, he often sang the baritone part during performances.

Synonyms

B

baritone voice

vsbaritone

3 4.5

A male singing sound lower than tenor but higher than bass

is used also for a person who sings in that range

B

baryton

vsbaritone

• Archaic

9.9

A male singing voice higher than bass and lower than tenor

is the modern common term rather than the old or rare form

Compounds

B

baritone voice

3 4.5

A male singing sound lower than tenor but higher than bass

B

baritone horn

1 6.1

A brass instrument like a small tuba that makes a warm low sound

How Low

bass

33 4.9

baritone

17 4.5

tenor

7 5.1

Surface Forms

Etymology