woodwind

wood·wind  (wdwnd)

n.

1. A wind instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of reeds in the mouthpiece, as a bassoon, clarinet, oboe, or saxophone, or by the passing of air across the mouthpiece, as a flute.

2. woodwinds

a. The section of a band or orchestra composed of woodwind instruments.

b. Woodwind instruments or their players considered as a group.

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woodwind Music

Adjective

of or denoting a type of wind instrument, such as the oboe

Noun

the woodwind instruments of an orchestra

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

woodwind - any wind instrument other than the brass instruments woodwind instrument, wood beating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed - a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed finger hole - one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it flute, transverse flute - a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown thumbhole - the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb wind instrument, wind - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath

Translations

woodwind [ˈwudwɪnd] n (MUS) → instrumentos mpl de viento de madera

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woodwind [ˈwudwɪnd] wood n (Mus) → bois m;

the woodwind → les bois mpl

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woodwind [ˈwʊdwɪnd] wood adj [instrument] → Holzblasinstrument nt;

the woodwind wood → die Holzbläser pl

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woodwind [ˈwudwɪnd] npl (MUS): the woodwind → i legni