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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

fifefaɪf(n.; v.)fifed, fif•ing.

  1. (n.)a high-pitched transverse flute used commonly in military and marching musical groups.

    Category: Music and Dance

  2. (v.t.)to play on a fife.

    Category: Music and Dance

Origin of fife:

1540–50; < G Pfeifepipe1

fif′er(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. fife(noun)

    a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band

Wiktionary

  1. fife(Noun)

    A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

  2. Fife(ProperNoun)

    A traditional county of Scotland now a Unitary Authority, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fife(noun)

    a small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music

  2. Fife(verb)

    to play on a fife

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Fife

    a maritime county in the E. of Scotland, which juts out into the German Ocean and is washed by the Firths of Tay and Forth on its N. and S. shores respectively, thus forming a small peninsula; has for the most part a broken and hilly surface, extensively cultivated however, while the "How of Fife," watered by the Eden, is a fertile valley, richly wooded; and valuable coal deposits are worked in the S. and W.; its long coast-line is studded with picturesque towns, many of them of ancient date, a circumstance which led James VI. to describe the county as "a beggar's mantle fringed with gold"; it is associated with much that is memorable in Scottish history.


Translations for FIFE

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

fife(noun)

a type of small flute.

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