Meaning

6 senses
  1. A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.

    Piccoloflöte

    пи́кколоpíkkolo, фле́йта-пи́кколоfléjta-píkkolo

    a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute

  2. An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.

  3. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.

  4. (New York, Southern US, US)A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.

  5. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.

    Piccolo

  6. (obsolete)A piccolo piano.

Examples

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  1. Tom is learning how to play the piccolo.

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  2. Tom can't play the piccolo.

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  3. I've insured my rare 17th century piccolo.

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  4. No instrument is snootier than the piccolo trumpet.

    deKein Instrument ist versnobter als die Piccolotrompete.

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  5. I found your piccolo broken in the street.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
small, high-pitched transverse flute:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
small, high-pitched transverse flute:
bottle of champagne:

Origin

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

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Forms

plural: piccolos / piccoli
Singularpiccolo
Pluralpiccolos / piccoli

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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