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Synset

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
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quality more info
timber more info
timbre more info
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sample sentences

"the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"
"the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
tonal tone
semantic pointers
hypernym
sound property
domain of synset (topic)
music
hyponym
harmonic resonance color, colour, coloration, colouration nasality resonance, sonority, vibrancy, plangency, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness shrillness, stridence, stridency register