Woodwind instruments are musical instruments such as flutes, clarinets, and recorders that you play by blowing into them.
2. singular noun
Thewoodwind is the section of an orchestra which consists of woodwind instruments such as flutes and clarinets.
woodwind in British English
(ˈwʊdˌwɪnd) music
adjective
1.
of, relating to, or denoting a type of wind instrument, excluding the brass instruments, formerly made of wood but now often made of metal, such as the flute or clarinet
noun
2. (functioning as plural)
woodwind instruments collectively
woodwind in American English
(ˈwʊdˌwɪnd)
noun
1. [pl.]
the woodwind instruments of an orchestra, or the players of these instruments
2.
any of such instruments
adjective
3.
designating a wind instrument made, esp. originally, of wood, as the flute, clarinet, or oboe
4.
composed of or for such an instrument or instruments
Rattle flooded the stage with extra strings, brass and woodwind.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Most woodwind instruments have a single or double reed.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The transparency of sound from gut strings means the woodwind and brass soloists emerge as if naturally from the orchestral texture.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
There is great depth in the Boston strings and brilliant woodwind soloists.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Yet there was tremendous power and clarity here, as well as stunning individual woodwind and brass playing.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
First, woodwind and brass alone.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The woodwind playing, too, has luminous beauty.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The brass attack was properly fierce and the winds sounded alert and characterful, especially in those bleak woodwind solos that hint at decades of despair.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This is his finest: all gliding woodwind and enormous brass, depending on how nasty the person on screen is.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In the vast first movement, the growling, guttural strings were outgunned by the skin and bones of brass and woodwind.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He had been getting into orchestration which interested me because I had already been thinking that these new songs could sound nice with strings and woodwind.
The Sun (2013)
In other languages
woodwind
British English: woodwind /ˈwʊdˌwɪnd/ ADJECTIVE
Woodwind instruments are musical instruments such as flutes, clarinets, and recorders that you play by blowing into them.
American English: woodwind
Arabic: آلَةٌ نَفْخٌ مُوسِيقِيَّة
Brazilian Portuguese: instrumento de sopro de madeira
Chinese: 木管乐器
Croatian: drveni duhaći instrumenti
Czech: dechový nástroj
Danish: træblæser
Dutch: hout houten blaasinstrument
European Spanish: instrumento de viento de madera
Finnish: puupuhallin
French: bois instrument
German: Holzblasinstrument
Greek: ξύλινο πνευστό όργανο
Italian: strumenti a fiato
Japanese: 木管楽器
Korean: 목관 악기
Norwegian: treblåserinstrument
Polish: instrumenty dęte drewniane
European Portuguese: instrumento de sopro de madeira
Romanian: de suflat
Russian: деревянный духовой инструмент
Latin American Spanish: instrumento de viento de madera
Swedish: träblåsinstrument
Thai: เครื่องดนตรีประเภทเป่า
Turkish: ağaç üflemeli çalgı
Ukrainian: дерев'яні духові інструменти
Vietnamese: bộ gỗ
Chinese translation of 'woodwind'
woodwind
(ˈwudwɪnd)
adj
[instrument]木管乐(樂)器的 (mùguǎn yuèqì de)
the woodwind (section) (Mus) 木管乐(樂)器(部) (mùguǎn yuèqì (bù))