Noun: heldentenor
| Singular | heldentenor |
| Plural | heldentenors |
Sample Sentences
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The absence of the Lyric's usual work-horse heldentenor William Johns (who, according to Lyric, dropped out of the show--quite uncharacteristically--due to illness) was sadly evident here. [1988 October 21, George Grass, “WagnerVision”, in Chicago Reader:]
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Over the course of his lifetime, he will be forced to endure ... precocious heldentenors [.] [2004, Joe Queenan, True Believers, page 158:]
Nouns inflected like heldentenor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Heldentenor. Literally, “hero tenor”. See: German Nouns '
Heldentenor'.
