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UK
/ˈæltəʊ/
]
[ US /ˈæɫtoʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈæɫtoʊ/ ]
NOUN
- the highest adult male singing voice
- (of a musical instrument) the second highest instrument in a family of musical instruments
- a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef
- the pitch range of the lowest female voice
- the lowest female singing voice
ADJECTIVE
- of or being the lowest female voice
- of or being the highest male voice; having a range above that of tenor
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(of a musical instrument) second highest member of a group
alto clarinet or recorder
How To Use alto In A Sentence
- Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
- “And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.” Castle Dangerous
- When you eat or drink a food source of maltose, the maltose is split into two glucose units so they can be absorbed.
- She said: ‘We have a rail station at Malton that fails abominably.’
- There is no flavour to the pepperoni and it is altogether too tomatoey. The Sun
- He'd probably dismissed her altogether by now as fickle, shallow and all too easily swayed by other people.
- In the postwar period they gradually merged with the Conservatives until they disappeared altogether. Times, Sunday Times
- Pondus limi, inde aworden is flæsc pund fyres of thon read is blod and hat factus est caro; pondus ignis, inde rubeus est sanguis et calidus; pund saltes of thon sindon salto tehero pund deawes of thon pondus salis, inde sunt salsae lacrimae; pondus roris, unde aworden is swat pund blostmes of thon is fagung egena factus est sudor; pondus floris, inde est uarietas oculorum; pund wolcnes of thon is unstydfullnisse _vel_ unstatholfæstnisse pondus nubis, inde est instabilitas thohta mentium; pund windes of thon is oroth cald pund gefe of thon is pondus uenti, inde est anhela frigida: pondus gratiae, id est thoht monnes sensus hominis. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
- Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight.
- Thousands of people flocked to the Malton Racing Stables Open Day, when 18 stables around Malton and Norton opened their doors to a fascinated public.