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canorous.

Adjective
Literary
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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