Usually means: Whispered or very soft speech.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. sotto voce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sotto voce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sotto voce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sotto voce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sotto voce: Vocabulary.com
  6. sotto-voce, sotto voce: Wordnik
  7. sotto voce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sotto voce: Wiktionary
  9. sotto voce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sotto voce: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sotto voce: Dictionary.com
  12. sotto voce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Sotto voce (music), Sotto voce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sotto voce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sotto voce: Rhymezone
  16. Sotto voce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sotto voce: Free Dictionary
  18. sotto voce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. sotto_voce: Foreign Words and Phrases
  20. sotto voce: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sotto voce: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sotto voce: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (sotto voce)

adjective:  (of speech, of a voice, etc) In soft tones; quiet.
adjective:  (music) Soft, instruments or voice.
adverb:  (of speech, of a voice, etc) Quietly.
adverb:  (music) Sung or played softly, instruments or voice.
noun:  (music) A direction in a score that a passage in a piece should be played softly, or sung in a low voice, when applied to vocal music.

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