Oboe

Definition:

• (n.) One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sounded by means of a double reed; a hautboy.

Compare oboe with other words:

oboe vs. obole

flute vs. oboe

musette vs. oboe

hoboy vs. oboe

hautboy vs. oboe

oboe vs. oboist

oboe vs. orchestra

oboe vs. reed

clarinet vs. oboe