tuba

Noun

Meaning

An ancient trumpet.

A sax-tuba. See Sax-tuba.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

horn cornet bugle better bass serpent break brass trumpet baritone sackbut saxhorn snorkel flageolet helicon

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Antonyms

haggard unfortunately off rotten evil poorly

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Hypernyms

bass brass brass instrument

Hyponyms

helicon bombardon euphonium

Phrases with the word

Tuba City tuba root tuba acustica tuba auditiva bombardon tuba

Derivatives

tubae

Anagrams

abut buat tabu batu buta Taub

Examples

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. Gerry Mulligan

I don't play the tuba. Lenny Kravitz

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh? Patti LuPone

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. Peter De Vries

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too. Rick Danko

It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it. Buddy Wakefield

Close letter words and terms

tub-thump tub-thumper tub-thumping tuba acustica tuba auditiva Tuba City