oboe
A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensembleA soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
» Can you play the oboe?
Ти вмієш грати на гобої?
Meaning
1 sensesA soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
Oboe
гобо́йgobój
гобо́йhobój
- a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
Examples
68 sentencesCan you play the oboe?
Ти вмієш грати на гобої? — deniko
Tom plays the oboe very well.
ruТом очень хорошо играет на гобое. — marafon
That's an oboe, not a clarinet.
ruЭто гобой, а не кларнет. — Wezel
deDas ist eine Oboe und keine Klarinette. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom showed us his new oboe.
I didn't know you played the oboe.
ruЯ не знал, что ты играешь на гобое. — marafon
deIch wusste gar nicht, dass Sie Oboe spielen. — Jan_Schreiber
Translations
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Origin
An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca.An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).
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Forms
plural: oboesSynonyms
2 synonymsWord family
6 related wordsCollocations
3 patterns- play the oboe
- oboe as well
- the oboe as