french horn

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   a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

   Synonymshorn

   Broaderbrass

Questions about french horn

What does french horn mean?

french horn means "a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves".

What is another word for french horn?

Close synonyms include horn. 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 french horn a common word?

french horn 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.