double-bass

1. 1.

   pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range

   “contrabass or double-bass clarinet”

   Synonymscontrabass

   Similarlow

Questions about double-bass

What does double-bass mean?

double-bass means "pitched an octave below normal bass instrumental or vocal range".

How many syllables are in double-bass?

double-bass has 3 syllables: dou-ble--bass. The stress falls on "dou".

What is another word for double-bass?

Close synonyms include contrabass. 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 double-bass a common word?

double-bass 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.