soprano

plural sopranos · plural soprani · plural sopranoes

1. The musical part higher in pitch than alto, typically encompassing the range of the treble clef.
2. A person or instrument that performs the soprano part.

   boy soprano

   2 more examples

   soprano saxophone

   I was only once faced with the task of auditioning a nimiety of sopranos.

   2008, Denis Norden, chapter 8, in Chips from a Life, →ISBN

   Synonyms: sop

present singular third person sopranos · participle present sopranoing · participle past sopranoed · past sopranoed

1. To sing or utter with high pitch.

   "Sure they ain't done me no harm," sopranoed the woman.

   1953, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel

plural Sopranos

1. A surname from Italian.

   Fictional male antiheroes like television’s crime patriarchs Tony Soprano and Walter White have reigned for some time, but the antiheroine has only more recently had the opportunity to rise up – and become the cause of her own downfall.

   2021 August 11, Jacqui Palumbo, “Rosamund Pike in ‘I Care a Lot’ and six more recommendations if you love an antiheroine”, in CNN, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2022