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Definition of falsetto noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

falsetto

noun
 
/fɔːlˈsetəʊ/
 
/fɔːlˈsetəʊ/
(plural falsettos)
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  1. an unusually high voice, especially the voice that men use to sing very high notesTopics Musicc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryFalsetto is used before these nouns:
    • voice
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    Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Italian, diminutive of falso ‘false’, from Latin falsus, fallere ‘deceive’.
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