A single tone of definite pitch, as produced by a musical instrument, the human voice, etc. Cf. tone, n. 2a.

A (musical) sound or tone; esp. the sound of the voice: = tone, n. 1. Obsolete.

Music and Acoustics. A sound of definite pitch and character produced by regular vibration of a sounding body; a musical note.

Music. A note or part answering to or repeating another; a response; a point of imitation. Also more generally: a note, a musical sound. Usually in p…

figurative or transferred. Now chiefly with reference to the organ; in the earlier quots. apparently sometimes vaguely used for ‘note’, ‘key’…

A musical tone. Obsolete. rare.

A musical tone composed of fundamental and overtones; = clang, n. 3.