Mezzo

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mezzo
    n 1: a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto [syn:
         {mezzo-soprano}, {mezzo}]
    2: the female singing voice between contralto and soprano [syn:
       {mezzo-soprano}, {mezzo}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mezzo \Mez"zo\, a. [It., from L. medius middle, half. See {Mid},
   a.] (Mus.)
   Mean; not extreme.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "mezzo":
      amidships, average, central, core, equatorial, equidistant,
      halfway, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial,
      median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mid, middle,
      middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway,
      nuclear

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