basso
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
Definition of basso
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A bass singer, especially in opera.
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noun
- A bass singer, especially in opera.
- An instrumental part written for a bass instrument.
- The double bass, or contrabasso.
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(alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of bashaw and pasha.
“Great Kings of Barbary, and my portly Baſſoes, we heare, the Tartars & the Eaſterne theeues: Under the conduct of one Tamburlaine, Preſume a bickering with your Emperour: […]”
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Etymology
From Italian basso, from Latin bassus (“short, low”). Doublet of base and bass.
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