Definitions for oboeˈoʊ boʊ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

o•boeˈoʊ boʊ(n.)

  1. a woodwind instrument having a slender conical, tubular body and a double-reed mouthpiece.

    Category: Music and Dance

Origin of oboe:

1690–1700; < It < F hautbois=haut high +bois wood; cf. hautboy

o′bo•ist(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. oboe, hautboy, hautbois(noun)

    a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. oboe(noun)ˈoʊ boʊ

    a thin woodwind instrument

Wiktionary

  1. oboe(Noun)

    A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grendilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.

  2. Origin: An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the word hautbois, a compound word made of haut and bois.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Oboe(noun)

    one of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Oboe

    a treble-sounding musical instrument of the reed class, to which the bassoon is reckoned the bass.


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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

oboe(noun)

a type of high-pitched woodwind musical instrument.

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