BRASS INSTRUMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brass instrument mean? 

• BRASS INSTRUMENT (noun)
  The noun BRASS INSTRUMENT has 1 sense:

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRASS INSTRUMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

brass; brass instrument

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

wind; wind instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath)

Meronyms (parts of "brass instrument"):

valve (device in a brass wind instrument for varying the length of the air column to alter the pitch of a tone)

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

baritone; baritone horn (the second lowest brass wind instrument)

bass horn; sousaphone; tuba (the lowest brass wind instrument)

bugle (a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares)

clarion (a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone)

cornet; horn; trump; trumpet (a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves)

fluegelhorn; flugelhorn (a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore)

French horn; horn (a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves)

saxhorn (any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves)

trombone (a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide)