wind instrument

Questions about wind instrument

What is another word for wind instrument?

It depends which wind instrument you mean. In the sense “a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath”, the synonyms are wind. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of wind instrument?

WordNet records no antonym for wind instrument. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for wind instrument come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of wind instrument

• Full entry for wind instrumentAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for wind instrumentWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.