WOODWIND
Dictionary entry overview: What does woodwind mean?
• WOODWIND (noun)
The noun WOODWIND has 1 sense:
1. any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
Familiarity information: WOODWIND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WOODWIND (noun)
Meaning:
Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
woodwind; woodwind instrument; wood
Hypernyms ("woodwind" 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 the breath)
Meronyms (parts of "woodwind"):
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"):
beating-reed instrument; reed; reed instrument (a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed)
fipple flute; fipple pipe; recorder; vertical flute (a woodwind with a vertical pipe and 8 finger holes and a whistle mouthpiece)
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)
