bass horn

1. 1.

   the lowest brass wind instrument

   Synonymssousaphonetuba

   Broaderbrassbass

   Narrowereuphoniumhelicon

Questions about bass horn

What does bass horn mean?

bass horn means "the lowest brass wind instrument".

What is another word for bass horn?

Close synonyms include sousaphone, tuba. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bass horn a common word?

bass horn is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.