timbres

Meaning of timbres

plural noun
  1. the character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity.
    trumpet mutes with different timbres
    a voice high in pitch but rich in timbre

mid 19th century: from French, from medieval Greek timbanon, from Greek tumpanon ‘drum’.

Information about timbres

Hyphenation of timbres

tim-bres

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • timbres is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

timbres synonyms

Meaning a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength:

tone

Meaning vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear:

sound

Meaning the sound produced in a person's larynx and uttered through the mouth, as speech or song:

voice

Meaning the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light:

colour

Meaning the character of a piece of music as determined by the key in which it is played or the relations between the notes of a scale or key:

tonality

Meaning the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating:

resonance

Meaning a small circular band, typically of precious metal and often set with one or more gemstones, worn on a finger as an ornament or a token of marriage, engagement, or authority:

ring

Anagrams of timbres

betrims, timbers

Words that rhyme with timbres

Bres, sabres, celebres, febres, tenebres, fibres, microfibres, Mimbres, hombres, sombres, umbres

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