woodwind instrument

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   any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

   Synonymswoodwindwood

   Broaderwind instrument

   Narrowerbeating-reed instrumentflute

   Partsfinger holethumbhole

Questions about woodwind instrument

What does woodwind instrument mean?

woodwind instrument means "any wind instrument other than the brass instruments".

What is another word for woodwind instrument?

Close synonyms include woodwind, wood. 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 woodwind instrument a common word?

woodwind 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.