Usually means: High-pitched singing by male vocalists.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. falsetto: Merriam-Webster
  2. falsetto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. falsetto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. falsetto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. falsetto: Vocabulary.com
  6. Falsetto, falsetto: Wordnik
  7. falsetto: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. falsetto: Wiktionary
  9. falsetto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. falsetto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. falsetto: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Falsetto, falsetto: Dictionary.com
  13. falsetto: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. falsetto: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Falsetto (disambiguation), Falsetto (song), Falsetto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Falsetto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. falsetto: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. falsetto: Rhymezone
  19. Falsetto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. falsetto: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. falsetto: FreeDictionary.org
  22. falsetto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. falsetto: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. falsetto: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. falsetto: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Falsetto: Lexicon of Linguistics
  3. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. falsetto: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See falsettos as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (singing, uncountable) The "false" (singing) voice in any human, usually airy and lacking a purity of vowels; created by using the next highest vocal folds above those used for speech and normal range singing. It is commonly confused with the head voice register.
noun:  (music, countable) A person who sings in falsetto.
verb:  To sing or utter in falsetto.

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