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WIND INSTRUMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wind instrument mean? 

WIND INSTRUMENT (noun)
  The noun WIND INSTRUMENT has 1 sense:

1. a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breathplay

  Familiarity information: WIND INSTRUMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WIND INSTRUMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wind; wind instrument

Hypernyms ("wind instrument" is a kind of...):

instrument; musical instrument (any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds)

Meronyms (parts of "wind instrument"):

bell (the flared opening of a tubular device)

embouchure; mouthpiece (the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wind instrument"):

brass; brass instrument (a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece)

free-reed instrument (a wind instrument with a free reed)

kazoo (a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece)

ocarina; sweet potato (egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes)

organ; pipe organ (wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard)

organ pipe; pipe; pipework (the flues and stops on a pipe organ)

pipe (a tubular wind instrument)

post horn (wind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries)

whistle (a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it)

wood; woodwind; woodwind instrument (any wind instrument other than the brass instruments)


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