teneur

Borrowed from French teneur.

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• Hyphenation: te‧neur

teneur m (uncountable)

1. tenor, course of thought

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From Old French tenor, tenëor, derived from the verb tenir, or from Latin tenor. Doublet of ténor.

• IPA^(key): /tə.nœʁ/

teneur f (plural teneurs)

1. content, contents, tenor
2. tenor (musical part holding the main melody)

teneur m (plural teneurs, feminine teneuse)

1. holder, especially a title holder

• “teneur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• eurent, neutre, retenu, tenure

teneur

1. Alternative form of tenour