Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.

    Holzblasinstrument

    деревя́нный духово́й инструме́нтderevjánnyj duxovój instrumént

More definitions
  • any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

Examples

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  1. What's the hardest woodwind instrument to play?

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  2. Tom plays the saxophone and several other woodwind instruments.

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  3. Tom can play several brass instruments, but he can't play any woodwind instruments.

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  4. Tom plays flute in the woodwind section of the orchestra.

    Том грає на флейті у групі дерев'яних духових інструментів оркестру.

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  5. The woodwinds aren't playing softly enough.

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Translations

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Forms

plural: woodwinds
Singularwoodwind
Pluralwoodwinds

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

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