intonation
- Noun. (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
- Noun. The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
- Noun. Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
- Noun. Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
- Noun. A thundering; thunder.
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