chest voice

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A tone of the voice which arouses sympathetic vibration in the chest or thorax. Also called chest-tone. See head-voice.

Wiktionary

1. n. phonology a kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and of a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented to each other.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Phon.) a kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and of a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented to each other.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the lower ranges of the voice in speaking or singing