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canorous

canorous adjective: melodious.

Adjective

canorous (comparative more canorous, superlative most canorous)

  1. melodious
    • Unfortunately Watt was thinking of birds at the time, their missile flights, their canorous reloadings.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    dulcet
  2. resonant
    Synonyms:
    booming

canorous meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

canorous in Tamil

செவிக்கினியதாக இசைக்கிற, காதுக்கினிய, இசை அதிர்வுடைய

canorous in Urdu

خوش آہنگ

canorous in Bengali

সুমধুর, সুরেলা, সঙ্গীতময়

Synonyms of canorous

Forms of canorous

comparativemore canorous
superlativemost canorous

Origin of canorous

From Latin canōrus.

Words formed from canorous

Questions about canorous

What does canorous mean?
Canorous means melodious.
What is canorous in Tamil?
Canorous in Tamil is செவிக்கினியதாக இசைக்கிற, காதுக்கினிய, இசை அதிர்வுடைய. See Canorous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is canorous?
Canorous is an adjective.

Words near canorous in the dictionary

  1. canopy piloting
  2. canopy shyness
  3. canopying
  4. canopyless
  5. canopylike
  6. canorous
  7. canorously
  8. canorousness
  9. Canosan
  10. Canossa
  11. Canossan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canorous (page history and authors); canorous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); canorous (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); canorous (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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