wind instrument

1. 1.

   a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath

   Synonymswind

   Broadermusical instrument

   Narrowerbrassfree-reed instrumentkazooocarinaorganorgan pipepipepost hornwhistlewoodwind

   Partsbellmouthpiece

Questions about wind instrument

What does wind instrument mean?

wind instrument means "a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath".

What is another word for wind instrument?

Close synonyms include wind. 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 wind instrument a common word?

wind instrument 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.