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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024trom•bone /trɑmˈboʊn, ˈtrɑmboʊn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Music and Dancea musical wind instrument consisting of a rounded metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice into aUshape, and having a slide for varying the tone.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024trom•bone (trom bōn′, trom′bōn),USA pronunciation n. - Music and Dancea musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in aUshape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone.)
- Gmc; compare Old High German trumpa, trumba horn, trumpet) + -one augmentative suffix
- Provencal
- Italian, equivalent. to tromb(a) trumpet (
- 1715–25;
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: trombone /trɒmˈbəʊn/ n - a brass instrument, a low-pitched counterpart of the trumpet, consisting of a tube the effective length of which is varied by means of a U-shaped slide. The usual forms of this instrument are the tenor trombone (range: about two and a half octaves upwards from E) and the bass trombone (pitched a fourth lower)
Etymology: 18th Century: from Italian, from tromba a trumpet, from Old High German trumbatromˈbonist n |