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

  1. A bass singer, especially in opera.
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noun

  1. A bass singer, especially in opera.
  2. An instrumental part written for a bass instrument.
  3. The double bass, or contrabasso.
  4. (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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