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FIFE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fife mean?
• FIFE (noun)
The noun FIFE has 1 sense:
1. a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band
Familiarity information: FIFE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fife" is a kind of...):
flute; transverse flute (a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown)
Context examples
He was taken to Bow Street, as well as I remember, on the completion of his fifteenth journey; when four-and-sixpence, and a second-hand fife which he couldn't play, were found upon his person.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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