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SAXOPHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saxophone mean? 

SAXOPHONE (noun)
  The noun SAXOPHONE has 1 sense:

1. a single-reed woodwind with a conical boreplay

  Familiarity information: SAXOPHONE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SAXOPHONE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sax; saxophone

Hypernyms ("saxophone" is a kind of...):

single-reed instrument; single-reed woodwind (a beating-reed instrument with a single reed (as a clarinet or saxophone))

Derivation:

saxophonist (a musician who plays the saxophone)


 Context examples 


Heyer randomly assigned different musical instruments to different gases, forming a combination consisting of a saxophone, a piano, an upright bass and some percussion woodblocks.

(Does Our Galaxy Sound Like Funky Blues Music?, George Putic/VOA)

All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the "Beale Street Blues" while a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers shuffled the shining dust.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived—no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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