brass band

1. 1.

   a group of musicians playing only brass and percussion instruments

   Broaderband

Questions about brass band

What does brass band mean?

brass band means "a group of musicians playing only brass and percussion instruments".

Is brass band a common word?

brass band is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.