Woodwind

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A wind instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of reeds in the mouthpiece, as a bassoon, clarinet, oboe, or saxophone, or by the passing of air across the mouthpiece, as a flute.
  • n. The section of a band or orchestra composed of woodwind instruments.
  • n. Woodwind instruments or their players considered as a group.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any (mostly wooden) musical instrument which produce sound by the player blowing into them, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
  • adj. Related to a woodwind instrument.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wind    wind instrument   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wood-wind    tabret    tuba    cornopean    flageolet