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chest voice

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented to each other.

Equivalents

Españolvoz de pecho
Françaisvoix de poitrine
DeutschBruststimme
3 more languages
Suomirintaääni
Italianovoce di petto
Nederlandsborststem

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

chest wall chest-beating chest-thumping chest; the front of the thorax chestage Chestang

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