A thundering; thunder.
- The act of intoning or chanting.
- An intoned utterance.
- A manner of producing or uttering tones, especially with regard to accuracy of pitch.
- Linguistics The use of changing pitch to convey syntactic information: a questioning intonation.
- A use of pitch characteristic of a speaker or dialect: "He could hear authority, the old parish intonation coming back into his voice” ( Graham Greene).
- Music The opening phrase of a plainsong composition sung as a solo part.