falsetto
noun/fɔːlˈsetəʊ/
/fɔːlˈsetəʊ/
(plural falsettos)
- an unusually high voice, especially the voice that men use to sing very high notesTopics Musicc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryFalsetto is used before these nouns:
- voice
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Italian, diminutive of falso ‘false’, from Latin falsus, fallere ‘deceive’.Want to learn more?
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