english horn
1English horn — noun count AMERICAN a long wooden musical instrument with a low sound that you play by blowing through it. An English horn is a woodwind instrument …
2English horn — English Eng lish, a. [AS. Englisc, fr. Engle, Angle, Engles, Angles, a tribe of Germans from the southeast of Sleswick, in Denmark, who settled in Britain and gave it the name of England. Cf. {Anglican}.] Of or pertaining to England, or to its… …
3English Horn — English Horn, Abkürzung ca: Oboe …
4English horn — n AmE a long wooden musical instrument which is like an ↑oboe but with a lower sound British Equivalent: cor anglais …
5English horn — n. a double reed woodwind instrument similar to the oboe but larger and a fifth lower in pitch …
6English horn — a large oboe, a fifth lower in pitch than the ordinary oboe, having a pear shaped bell and producing a mellow tone. Also called cor anglais. [1830 40] * * * Orchestral woodwind instrument, a large oboe pitched a 5th below the ordinary oboe. It… …
7English horn — noun a double reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch • Syn: ↑cor anglais • Hypernyms: ↑double reed instrument, ↑double reed * * * noun, pl ⋯ horns [count] chiefly US : a musical instrument that is similar to the oboe but… …
8english horn — Englisch Horn нем. [э/нглиш хорн] english horn англ. [и/нглиш хо/он] англ. рожок …
9English horn — Synonyms and related words: Pandean pipe, aulos, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, block flute, bombard, bourdon, cello, claribel, clarinet, clarion, concert flute, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, cornet, cornopean, cromorna, cromorne, cymbel,… …
10English horn — Eng′lish horn′ n. mad a large oboe, a fifth lower in pitch than the ordinary oboe, having a pear shaped bell and producing a mellow tone • Etymology: 1830–40 …
