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Flute

🔄 Synonyms of "Flute"

4 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
flutingnoun	(architecture, sculpture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.
transverse flutenoun	(music) Any type of flute that is held sideways when played.
champagne flutenoun	A piece of stemware with a long stem and a tall, narrow bowl on top, designed to keep champagne desirable during its consumption by preventing heat from the drinker's hand from warming the champagne while retaining its carbonation.
flute glassnoun	a tall narrow wineglass

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Flute"

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Word	Definition
transverse flutenoun	(music) Any type of flute that is held sideways when played.
champagne flutenoun	A piece of stemware with a long stem and a tall, narrow bowl on top, designed to keep champagne desirable during its consumption by preventing heat from the drinker's hand from warming the champagne while retaining its carbonation.
flute glassnoun	a tall narrow wineglass
shakuhachinoun	(music) A Japanese flute which is tuned to a pentatonic scale and is end-blown like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute.
pipenoun	Meanings relating to a wind instrument.
pipernoun	A musician who plays a pipe.
recordernoun	(music) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.
cussnoun	(chiefly US, colloquial) A curse.
damnnoun	(sometimes vulgar) The word "damn" employed as a curse.
hornnoun	(countable, zootomy) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
crapnoun	(slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
gobletnoun	A drinking vessel with a foot and stem.
tiknoun	(South Africa, slang) crystal meth or speed.
flûtenoun	—
goshnoun	Initialism of Great Ormond Street Hospital.
fifenoun	A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
pennywhistlenoun	(music) A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc.
piccolonoun	(music) A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
panpipenoun	A set of panpipes.
quenanoun	(music) A traditional flute of the Andes.