bassoon

From French basson.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəˈsuːn/

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• (General American) enPR: bə-so͞onʹ, IPA^(key): /bəˈsun/
• Rhymes: -uːn
• Hyphenation: bas‧soon

bassoon (plural bassoons)

1. A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.

   Synonym: (dated) fagotto

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     Higher and higher every day, / Till over the mast at noon— / The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, / For he heard the loud bassoon.

• bassoonist, bassooner
• contrabassoon

bassoon (third-person singular simple present bassoons, present participle bassooning, simple past and past participle bassooned)

1. To play the bassoon.
2. To make a bassoon-like sound.

• bassoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

bassoon

1. illative singular of basso