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 Definitions of BASS  [ɪs]  

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Definition of 'BASS' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) bass
low in pitch; of the lowest pitch or range.

2.  bass
of or pertaining to the lowest part in harmonic music.

3. (n.) bass
the bass part.

4.  bass
a bass voice, singer, or instrument.

5. (n.) bass
any of numerous edible, spiny-finned, freshwater or marine fishes of the families Serranidae and Centrarchidae.

Etymology:  (1685–95; var. of bast)

Definition of 'BASS' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) bass
the lowest part of the musical range

2. (noun) bass, bass part
the lowest part in polyphonic music

3. (noun) bass, basso
an adult male singer with the lowest voice

4. (noun) sea bass, bass
the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae

5. (noun) freshwater bass, bass
any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)

6. (noun) bass, bass voice, basso
the lowest adult male singing voice

7. (noun) bass
the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments

8. (adj) bass
nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes

9. (adj) bass, deep
having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
"a deep voice"; "a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice"; "a bass clarinet"


Definition of 'BASS' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) bass
a guitar that plays the lowest notes
to play the bass

2.  bass
the lowest male voice
to sing bass

3.  bass
a man with the lowest voice
tenors and basses

4.  bass
the lower range of all musical notes
a strong rhythm in the bass

5.  bass
a double bass
She plays (the) bass.


Definition of 'BASS' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) BASS
a bass, or deep, sound or tone

2. (adj) BASS
the lowest part in a musical composition

3. (adj) BASS
one who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass

4. (adj) BASS
deep or grave in tone

5. (noun) BASS
an edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species

6. (noun) BASS
the two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass

7. (noun) BASS
species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass

8. (noun) BASS
the southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish

9. (noun) BASS
the linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast

10. (noun) BASS
a hassock or thick mat

11.  BASS
of Bass

12. (verb) BASS
to sound in a deep tone


Definition of 'BASS' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  BASS
Common name for FISHES belonging to the order Perciformes and occurring in three different families.


Translation of 'BASS' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (a singer having) a male voice of the lowest pitch.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: basstem Arabic flag Arabic: مُغَنٍ جَهير الصَّوْت Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: бас
Brazilian flag Brazilian: baixo Czech flag Czech: bas, basista German flag German: der Baß
Danish flag Danish: bas; basstemme Greek flag Greek: μπάσος Spanish flag Spanish: bajo
Estonian flag Estonian: bass Farsi flag Farsi: بم ترین صدای مردانه Finnish flag Finnish: basso
French flag French: basse Hebrew flag Hebrew: בַּס Hindi flag Hindi: मन्द्र
Croatian flag Croatian: bas Hungarian flag Hungarian: basszus Indonesian flag Indonesian: bas
Icelandic flag Icelandic: bassi, bassarödd Italian flag Italian: basso Japanese flag Japanese: 低音
Korean flag Korean: 저음부, 베이스 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: bosas Latvian flag Latvian: bass
Malay flag Malay: suara bes Dutch flag Dutch: bas Norwegian flag Norwegian: basstemme
Polish flag Polish: bas Persian flag Persian: بم ترین صدای مردانه Pashto flag Pashto: په اركسټرا كې د بم ږغ پار
Portuguese flag Portuguese: baixo Romanian flag Romanian: bas Russian flag Russian: бас
Slovak flag Slovak: bas, basista Slovenian flag Slovenian: bas Serbian flag Serbian: bas
Swedish flag Swedish: bas Thai flag Thai: เสียงร้องต่ำที่สุดของนักร Turkish flag Turkish: bas, kalın ses
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 男低音 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: бас Urdu flag Urdu: مردانہ آواز میں گانے والی
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: giọng nam trầm Chinese flag Chinese: 男低音

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