Word.ws English Dictionary

big band

big band noun: a large dance or jazz band of 10 to 30 musicians usually featuring improvised solos by lead players, but otherwise playing orchestrated music.

Noun

big band (countable and uncountable, plural big bands)

  1. (countable) A large dance or jazz band of 10 to 30 musicians usually featuring improvised solos by lead players, but otherwise playing orchestrated music.
  2. (uncountable) The music produced by a jazz big band.

Forms of big band

pluralbig bands

Questions about big band

What does big band mean?
Big band means a large dance or jazz band of 10 to 30 musicians usually featuring improvised solos by lead players, but otherwise playing orchestrated music.
What part of speech is big band?
Big band is a noun.
What is the plural of big band?
The plural of big band is big bands.

Words near big band in the dictionary

  1. Big Bad Wolf
  2. Big Bad Wolves
  3. big bads
  4. big ball of mud
  5. big balls of mud
  6. big band
  7. big bands
  8. big bang
  9. big bang testing
  10. Big Banger
  11. Big Bangers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: big band (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “big band.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/big_band. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.