bassoon
English
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Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -uːn
- Hyphenation: bas‧soon
Noun
bassoon (plural bassoons)
- A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
- Synonym: (dated) fagotto
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
- Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.
Derived terms
Translations
musical instrument in the woodwind family
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Verb
bassoon (third-person singular simple present bassoons, present participle bassooning, simple past and past participle bassooned)
- To play the bassoon.
- To make a bassoon-like sound.
Further reading
Finnish
Noun
bassoon
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