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1. (n.) oboe
a woodwind instrument having a slender conical, tubular body and a double-reed mouthpiece.
Etymology: (1690–1700; < It < F hautbois=haut high +bois wood; cf. hautboy)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) oboe, hautboy, hautbois
a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
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1. (noun) oboe
a thin woodwind instrument
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1. (noun) oboe
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
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. oboe
a treble-sounding musical instrument of the reed class, to which the bassoon is reckoned the bass.
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Sense: a type of high-pitched woodwind musical instrument.
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 Afrikaans: hobo |
 Arabic: مِزْمار |
 Bulgarian: обой |
 Brazilian: oboé |
 Czech: hoboj |
 German: die Oboe |
 Danish: obo |
 Greek: όμποε (μουσ.) |
 Spanish: oboe |
 Estonian: oboe |
 Farsi: شهنا |
 Finnish: oboe |
 French: hautbois |
 Hebrew: אַבּוּב |
 Hindi: ओबो, शहनाई जैसा वाद्य, नफ |
 Croatian: oboa |
 Hungarian: oboa |
 Indonesian: oboe |
 Icelandic: óbó |
 Italian: oboe |
 Japanese: オーボエ |
 Korean: 오보에(목관 악기) |
 Lithuanian: obojus |
 Latvian: oboja |
 Malay: obo |
 Dutch: hobo |
 Norwegian: obo |
 Polish: obój |
 Persian: نى آله موسيقى شهنا |
 Pashto: شپيلى |
 Portuguese: oboé |
 Romanian: oboi |
 Russian: гобой |
 Slovak: hoboj |
 Slovenian: oboa |
 Serbian: oboa |
 Swedish: oboe |
 Thai: เครื่องดนตรีประเภทเป่าชนิ |
 Turkish: obua |
 Taiwanese: 雙簧管 |
 Ukrainian: гобой |
 Urdu: ايک قسم کي بانسري |
 Vietnamese: kèn ô-boa |
 Chinese: 双簧管 |
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