EGAVE

piccolo

About 0.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
  2. noun An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
  3. noun A piccolo piano.
  4. noun A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
  5. noun A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
  6. noun A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.
  7. adjective Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.

Similar words

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Word family

piccoloist piccoloists piccolos

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