MEANING
Pleasantly resonant or melodious in sound.
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- canorous voice
- canorous song
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A canorous voice filled the chapel.
The bird’s canorous song carried across the orchard.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more canorous; superlative most canorous where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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