basso profondo

noun

A singer with a bass voice of the lowest range.

OriginItalian basso profondo →
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Meanings

nounbasso profondo (plural basso profondos)

plural basso profondos

  1. entertainmentA singer with a bass voice of the lowest range.

    I am normally a low baritone, almost basso profundo [sic], but under certain kinds of provocations my voice disappears into the higher registers, perhaps into the bat range.

    1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 40
  2. entertainmentA bass voice of the lowest range.

Origin

  1. Italianbasso profondo
  2. Italianbasso profondo
  3. Englishbasso profondo

Borrowed from Italian basso profondo (“deep bass”).

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