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basso

basso noun: a bass singer, especially in opera. Also the obsolete spelling of bashaw and pasha.

Noun

basso (plural bassos or bassi)

  1. A bass singer, especially in opera.
  2. An instrumental part written for a bass instrument.
  3. The double bass, or contrabasso.

Also used as

basso is also the obsolete spelling of bashaw and pasha.

Forms of basso

pluralbassos
pluralbassi
pluralbassoes

Origin of basso

From Italian basso, from Latin bassus (“short, low”). Doublet of base and bass.

Phrases with basso

Words that rhyme with basso

Questions about basso

What does basso mean?
Basso means a bass singer, especially in opera.
What part of speech is basso?
Basso is a noun.
What is the plural of basso?
The plural of basso is bassos.

Words near basso in the dictionary

  1. basslines
  2. bassly
  3. bassman
  4. bassmen
  5. bassness
  6. basso
  7. basso cantante
  8. basso continuo
  9. basso continuos
  10. basso ostinato
  11. basso profondo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: basso (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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