bassoon
English
two bassoons
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəˈsuːn/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) enPR: bə-so͞onʹ, IPA(key): /bəˈsun/
- Hyphenation: bas‧soon
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːn
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
- 1798, 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.
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