/təʊn/
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Translation
The way a voice sounds, which shows how the speaker feels; also a shade of a colour or a musical sound.
Word origin
From Greek tonos, meaning a stretching or the pitch of a sound, which came into English through Latin tonus.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- tonos
- English cognates
- tune, intonation
Grammar
Gender
Pluraltones
Examples
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His words may have been fine, but the way they sounded was not.
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The tone tells you how the speaker feels, here kind and warm.
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Here "tones" means shades of a colour.
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