Bass definition

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A low-pitched sound or tone.
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Any of various North American freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, especially the largemouth bass and the smallmouth bass.
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Any of various marine fishes especially of the families Serranidae and Moronidae, and including the sea basses and the striped bass.
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Bass is defined as a very low range of musical notes or a person or instrument that produces those notes.

An example of bass is the part that is sung below the baritone in a male barbershop quartet.

An example of someone who had a bass voice is Louis Armstrong.

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The definition of bass is the lowest part of the musical scale.

An example of the part of a music that is bass is the singing voice under the baritone in a male barbershop quartet.

An example of an instrument that is bass is the guitar.

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The tones in the lowest register of an instrument.
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An instrument, especially a double bass, that produces tones in a low register.
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A male singing voice of the lowest range.
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A singer who has such a voice.
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An instrument that sounds within this range.
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A vocal or instrumental part written within this range.
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Having a deep tone.
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Low in pitch.
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The range of the lowest male voice, usually from middle C to two or more octaves below.
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A low, deep sound or tone, as of a voice with this range.
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In four-part harmony, the lowest part.
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The lower part of the audio-frequency band in sound reproduction.
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A voice or singer with such a range.
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An instrument with a similar range within its family; specif., a double bass.
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A part for such a voice or instrument.
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Of, for, or having the range of a bass.
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Any of various families of spiny-finned percoid, food and game fishes of fresh or salt water, including black bass, rock bass, and striped bass.
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An English brand of bottled pale ale.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
bass
Plural:
basses

Origin of bass

  • Middle English bas lowest musical part from bas low base2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English bars perch from Old English bærs

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bass Sentence Examples

  • I bass trumpet.

  • It was funny; he knew who blew horn with Coltrane, who played bass for Mulligan and even remembered the date Gerry's set was recorded—August 1955.

  • Large numbers of shad, blue fish, weak fish (squeteague), alewives, Spanish mackerel, perch, bass, croakers (Micropogon undulatus), mullet, menhaden, oysters and clams are caught in the sounds, in the lower courses of the rivers flowing into them, or in the neighbouring waters of the sea.

  • Radcliffe learned to play bass guitar from Gary Oldman.

  • Most of the hills and crags in the Carboniferous area are volcanic, and many of them - such as the castle rocks of Edinburgh and Stirling, Binny Craig in Linlithgowshire, North Berwick Law and the Bass Rock - mark the sites of actual events of eruption.

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