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Saxophone Common

Origin: Greek suffix -phone

Saxophone has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore

"The jazz musician adjusted his saxophone, marveling at how its conical bore shaped the warm, reedy tone that defined their solo."

2

A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.

"The jazz musician adjusted his saxophone, letting the unique upward curve of its bell guide the warm tones through the smoky club."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
single-reed instrument
Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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