Usually means: Quality distinguishing different types of sound.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word timbre:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. timbre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. timbre: Merriam-Webster
  3. timbre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. timbre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. timbre: Collins English Dictionary
  6. timbre: Vocabulary.com
  7. Timbre, timbre: Wordnik
  8. timbre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. timbre: Wiktionary
  10. timbre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. timbre: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. timbre: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. timbre: Dictionary.com
  14. timbre: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Timbre (album), Timbre (disambiguation), Timbre (music), Timbre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Timbre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. timbre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. timbre: Rhymezone
  19. timbre, timbre, timbre (het), timbre (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. timbre: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. timbre: FreeDictionary.org
  22. timbre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. timbre: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Timbre: Lexicon of Linguistics
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Timbre (music), timbre: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Timbre: Game Dictionary
  2. Timbre (music), timbre: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. timbre: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Timbre (music), timbre: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. timbre: The Folk File
  2. timbre: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIMBRE: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  4. timbre (tone): Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See timbral as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.
noun:  The pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch.
noun:  (heraldry, uncommon) The crest on a (helmet atop a) coat of arms.

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