PICCOLO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piccolo mean? 

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

1. a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICCOLO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("piccolo" 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 

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)