Definitions for oboeˈoʊ boʊ

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

o•boeˈoʊ boʊ(n.)

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

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

oboe(noun)ˈoʊ boʊ
a thin woodwind instrument

Wiktionary

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.

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

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