TROMBONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trombone mean? 

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

1. a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROMBONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

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)

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

sackbut (a medieval musical instrument resembling a trombone)

Derivation:

trombonist (a musician who plays the trombone)

 Context examples 

The good Doctor said she was nervous, and, to relieve her, proposed a round game at cards; of which he knew as much as of the art of playing the trombone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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)