BASS
Dictionary entry overview: What does bass mean?
• BASS (noun)
The noun BASS has 8 senses:
1. the lowest part of the musical range
2. the lowest part in polyphonic music
3. an adult male singer with the lowest voice
4. the lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
5. any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
6. the lowest adult male singing voice
7. the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
8. nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
Familiarity information: BASS used as a noun is common.
• BASS (adjective)
The adjective BASS has 1 sense:
1. having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
Familiarity information: BASS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BASS (noun)
Meaning:
The lowest part of the musical range
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
pitch (the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration)
Meaning:
The lowest part in polyphonic music
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
bass part; bass
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
part; voice (the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
basso continuo; continuo; figured bass; thorough bass (a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played)
ground bass (a short melody in the bass that is constantly repeated)
Meaning:
An adult male singer with the lowest voice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
basso; bass
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)
Meaning:
The lean flesh of a saltwater fish of the family Serranidae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
sea bass; bass
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
saltwater fish (flesh of fish from the sea used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
striped bass; striper (caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States)
Holonyms ("bass" is a part of...):
sea bass (any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin)
Meaning:
Any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
freshwater bass; bass
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
freshwater fish (flesh of fish from fresh water used as food)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
largemouth bass (flesh of largemouth bass)
smallmouth bass (flesh of smallmouth bass)
Holonyms ("bass" is a part of...):
freshwater bass (North American food and game fish)
Meaning:
The lowest adult male singing voice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
bass voice; basso; bass
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
singing voice (the musical quality of the voice while singing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
basso profundo (a very deep bass voice)
Meaning:
The member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
instrument; musical instrument (any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
bass fiddle; bass viol; bull fiddle; contrabass; double bass; string bass (largest and lowest member of the violin family)
bass guitar (the guitar with six strings that has the lowest pitch)
bass horn; sousaphone; tuba (the lowest brass wind instrument)
bombard; bombardon (a large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family)
Meaning:
Nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("bass" is a kind of...):
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bass"):
freshwater bass (North American food and game fish)
• BASS (adjective)
Meaning:
Having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range
Synonyms:
bass; deep
Context examples:
a deep voice / a bass voice is lower than a baritone voice / a bass clarinet
Similar:
low; low-pitched (used of sounds and voices; low in pitch or frequency)
