Word.ws English Dictionary

tones of voice

tones of voice is the plural of tone of voice.

Meaning of tone of voice

Noun

tone of voice (plural tones of voice)

  1. The quality, manner, or way someone speaks.
    • HAL: Go ahead. JOHN: Wait a minute. That tone of voice… you don’t like it!2004 March, Hal Helms, “Adventures in Encapsulation; Part 2: Talking OO: Learning to think in ‘objects’”, in Robert Diamond, editor, ColdFusion Developer’s Journal, volume 6, number 3, Montvale...
    Synonyms:
    intonation, tone

Questions about tones of voice

What is tones of voice the plural of?
Tones of voice is the plural of tone of voice.

Words near tones of voice in the dictionary

  1. toner
  2. toners
  3. tones
  4. tones down
  5. tones in
  6. tones of voice
  7. tones up
  8. tones with
  9. toneset
  10. tonesets
  11. tonetic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tones of voice (page history and authors); tone of voice (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tones of voice.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tones_of_voice. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.