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oboes

oboes is the plural of oboe.

Meaning of oboe

Noun

oboe (plural oboes)

  1. A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
    • Whistles, mirlitons, flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent.1990, Francis Bebey, African music: a people's art, page 64

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Noun capitalized: OBOEs

OBOEs

  1. (plural) plural of OBOE

Phrases with oboes

Questions about oboes

What is oboes the plural of?
Oboes is the plural of oboe.
What part of speech is oboes?
Oboes is a noun.

Words near oboes in the dictionary

  1. oboe-players
  2. oboedience
  3. oboeist
  4. oboeists
  5. oboelike
  6. oboes
  7. oboes d'amore
  8. oboi d'amore
  9. oboist
  10. oboists
  11. obol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oboes (page history and authors); OBOEs (page history and authors); oboe (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.

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