WOODWIND INSTRUMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodwind instrument mean? 

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

1. any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODWIND INSTRUMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

wood; woodwind; woodwind instrument

Hypernyms ("woodwind 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 "woodwind instrument"):

finger hole (one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it)

thumbhole (the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb)

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

beating-reed instrument; reed; reed instrument (a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed)

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)