piccolo
/ˈpɪkəloʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
noun
An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
noun
A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
noun
A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.
adj
Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.
Example Sentences
- "[A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs."
- "There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: piccolo
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɪkəloʊ/
- British English: /ˈpɪkələʊ/