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tuba
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tuba has 1 sense
- tuba(n = noun.artifact) bass horn, sousaphone - the lowest brass wind instrument; Array is a kind of bass, brass, brass instrument
has particulars: euphonium, bombardon, helicon
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tuba, n. (pl. tubas)
1 a a low-pitched brass wind instrument. b its player.
2 an organ stop with the quality of a tuba.
1 a a low-pitched brass wind instrument. b its player.
2 an organ stop with the quality of a tuba.
Etymology
It. f. L, = trumpet
THESAURUS
tuba
alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, ballad horn, baritone, bass horn, brass choir, brass wind, brass-wind instrument, brasses, bugle, bugle horn, clarion, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean, double-bell euphonium, euphonium, helicon, horn, hunting horn, key trumpet, lituus, lur, mellophone, ophicleide, orchestral horn, pocket trumpet, post horn, sackbut, saxhorn, saxtuba, serpent, slide trombone, sliphorn, sousaphone, tenor tuba, tromba, trombone, trumpet, valve trombone, valve trumpet
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