Other forms: sopranos
A soprano is the highest singing voice. A soprano solo, sing soprano, three sopranos.
The four standard choral parts are soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Sopranos are usually women or boys, and a countertenor is a man singing in that range by a different method. In opera, coloratura soprano and dramatic soprano are distinct types with distinct repertoires. Note that soprano also names the highest instrument in a family — soprano saxophone, soprano recorder; and that the plural is sopranos.
1nounsopranoThe highest singing voice.
“The soprano hit the high note, and the audience burst into applause.”
soprano is a voice range.
Italian soprano means the one above, from Latin supra. All the voice names are Italian and describe position: alto means high, tenor means the one holding the tune, and bass means low.
Latin
super — above
Vulgar Latin
*superānus
Italian
soprano
English, today
soprano
Borrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin superānus, adjective from preposition Latin super (“above”). a doublet of sovereign, from the same Latin root via Old French.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA