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noun a female singer
noun the highest female voice; the voice of a boy before puberty
noun the pitch range of the highest female voice
originBorrowed from Italian soprano, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, adjective from preposition Latin super (“above”). Doublet of sovereign, from the same Latin root via Old French.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0