CLARINET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clarinet mean? 

• CLARINET (noun)
  The noun CLARINET has 1 sense:

1. a single-reed instrument with a straight tube

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLARINET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A single-reed instrument with a straight tube

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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

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

bass clarinet (a large clarinet whose range is an octave below the B-flat clarinet)

basset horn (a tenor clarinet; pitched in the key of F below the B-flat clarinet)

B-flat clarinet; licorice stick (the ordinary clarinet with a middle range)

Derivation:

clarinetist; clarinettist (a musician who plays the clarinet)