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Definition of "barytone" [bar•y•tone]

  • Music Variant of baritone. (noun)
  • Linguistics A word that has a heavy stress or pitch accent on its penultimate syllable. (noun)
  • Linguistics Relating to or being a word that has a heavy stress or pitch accent on its penultimate syllable. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "barytone" in a sentence
  • "Still more curious was the form of viol known as the barytone, which, in addition to an outfit of six catgut strings upon the finger board, was furnished with twenty-four wire strings, stretched close under the sounding board, where they sounded by sympathetic vibration."
  • "The prince was a great amateur of the peculiar viol called the barytone, and it was one of Haydn's duties to provide new compositions for this instrument."
  • "A crude, profane, hard-drinking and oversexed football player from Paris, Kansas, Gantry latched onto the ministry because of the power it gave him over others, through the exercise of his histrionic gifts and his "arousing barytone.""