bass

UK/beɪs/US/beɪs/

nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #2,892 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: basses

Bass is the lowest range of musical sound. Turn up the bass, a bass line, sing bass.

It is said to rhyme with face, which catches out anybody who meets it first in writing, and the fish spelled the same way is said as it looks. The bass line is what people move to, since low frequencies are felt in the body.

Definitions of bass

1nounbassThe lowest range of musical sound.B2
“Turn the bass down a little; the whole floor is shaking.”

bass is a range.

Where it comes from

A respelling of base under the influence of Italian basso, meaning low.

+ (sound) Lord is in his holy temple.ogg From base.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

bass in the wild

The bass guitar, also known as the electric bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.
Bass guitar
The popularity of drum and bass at its commercial peak ran parallel to several other UK dance styles.
Drum and bass
Drum and bass subgenres include breakcore, ragga jungle, hardstep, darkstep, techstep, neurofunk, ambient drum and bass, liquid drum and bass, jump up, drumfunk, sambass, and drill 'n' bass.
Drum and bass
Three major types of bass drums can be distinguished.
Bass drum
The kick drum, a term for a bass drum associated with a drum kit, which is much smaller than the above-mentioned bass drum.
Bass drum

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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