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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FALSET'TO, n. A feigned voice.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: artificially high; above the normal voice range; "a falsetto voice" n
1: a male singing voice with artificially high tones in an upper register

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural -tos) Etymology: Italian, from diminutive of falso false, from Latin falsus Date: 1721 1. an artificially high voice; especially an artificially produced singing voice that overlaps and extends above the range of the full voice especially of a tenor 2. a singer who uses falsetto II. adverb Date: 1940 in falsetto

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -os) 1 a method of voice production used by male singers, esp. tenors, to sing notes higher than their normal range. 2 a singer using this method. Etymology: It., dimin. of falso FALSE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Falsetto Fal*set"to, n.; pl. Falsettos. [It. falsetto, dim. fr. L. falsus. See False.] A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(falsettos) If a man sings or speaks in a falsetto, his voice is high-pitched, and higher than a man's normal voice. He sang to himself in a soft falsetto. ...a falsetto voice. N-COUNT: usu sing, oft in N, N n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Head voice.

Moby Thesaurus

alto, aphonia, artificial voice, baritone, bass, bourdon, bravura, broken speech, broken tones, broken voice, burden, chest voice, childish treble, choked voice, choral, choric, coloratura, countertenor, cracked voice, croak, crow, dramatic, drone, drone bass, dysarthria, dyslalia, dyslogia, dysphasia, dysphonia, dysphrasia, harshness, hawking voice, head register, head tone, head voice, heroic, high, high-pitched, high-sounding, high-toned, hiss, hoarseness, hymnal, idioglossia, idiolalia, impairment of speech, lisp, lisping, liturgical, loss of voice, lyric, male alto, mezzo-soprano, muzzy speech, nasal tone, nasalization, operatic, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, quaver, sacred, shake, sibilation, singing, soprano, speech defect, speech impediment, tenor, treble, tremor, twang, vocal, voce, voce di petto, voce di testa, voice