Entertainment / Literature / Tenor: In common usage, tenor refers to the course of thought, meaning or emotion in anything written or spoken. Among rhetoricians, however, the word tenor more specifically refers to the subject of a metaphor. For instance, if a writer claimed, 'Mrs. Higgins is a witch,' the tenor of the metaphor witch is Mrs. Higgins. When Shakespeare claims that 'all the world's a stage,' the entire world is the tenor for the metaphor of a stage. See metaphor.
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Tenor Noun Synonyms: drift, tone, spirit, essence, character, gist, bias, import, substance, effect, significance, meaning, sense, connotation, theme, thread, implication, inference, intent, purpose, tendency, purport, direction
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Entertainment / Music / Tenor Drum: Percussion instrument, larger than the snare drum, with a wooden shell. MORE