Meaning & use
bass
The lowest range of musical pitch, or a voice, instrument, or sound within that low range.
See it in a sentence
He plays bass in a small jazz trio, laying down a steady low rhythm beneath the melody.
Turn down the bass on the stereo; it is rattling the windows in the next room.
A note on using this word
Bass meaning low-pitched rhymes with base; the unrelated fish of the same spelling rhymes with mass.
Words with a similar meaning
low tonebass register
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Words with an opposite meaning
treble
Another way to use it
2. noun
A freshwater or saltwater fish, often of the perch family, prized for food and sport fishing.
We spent the whole afternoon fishing for bass along the reedy edge of the lake.
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