Usually means: Male singer castrated before puberty.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word castrato:

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  1. castrato: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. castrato: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. castrato: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. castrato: Collins English Dictionary
  5. castrato: Vocabulary.com
  6. Castrato, castrato: Wordnik
  7. castrato: Wiktionary
  8. castrato: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. castrato: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Castrato, castrato: Dictionary.com
  11. Castrato: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Castrato: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. castrato: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. castrato: Rhymezone
  15. Castrato: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. castrato: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. castrato: Free Dictionary
  18. castrato: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. castrato: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. castrato: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Castrato: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (castrato)

noun:  A male who has been castrated, especially a male whose testicles have been removed before puberty in order to retain his boyish voice.
noun:  A male soprano or alto voice produced by castration of the treble singer before puberty, intended to conserve his voice; the singer.
adjective:  (literally) Castrated; especially castrated prepubescently.
adjective:  Having, using or containing the voice of a castrato (noun).
adjective:  Originally composed for a castrato.

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