basso
/ˈbasəʊ
/noun (plural bassos or bassi /ˈbasi/)
A bass voice or vocal part.The Canadian pianist was a law unto himself, singing as he played in a grumbling basso....
- He was a stern, vindictive man with piercing dark eyes and a booming basso voice which always made her shudder.
- ‘Give me the phone, give me the phone,’ he insisted in his jowly basso.
Origin
Early 18th century: Italian, 'low', from Latin bassus 'short, low'.
Rhymes
- behead
- beheading
- be heading for a fall
- be hearing (or seeing) things
- be hearing things
- beheld
- be hell on
- behemoth
- be here (or have come) to stay
- behest
- behind
- behind bars
- behind closed doors
- behindhand
- behind line
- behind post
- behind someone's back
- behind the bit
- behind the counter
- behind the eight ball
- behind the scenes
- behind the times
- behind time
- be history
- Behn, Aphra