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piccoli

piccoli is the plural of piccolo.

Meaning of piccolo

Noun

piccolo (plural piccolos or piccoli)

  1. A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
    Synonyms:
    octave flute
  2. An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
  3. (obsolete) A piccolo piano.
  4. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
    • [A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Soul of Laploshka”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 71
    Synonyms:
    busser, commis waiter, omnibus
  5. (New-York, Southern US, US) A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
  6. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.

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Proper noun capitalized: Piccoli

Piccoli (plural Piccolis)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Forms of piccoli

pluralPiccolis

Origin of piccoli

Borrowed from Italian Piccoli.

Questions about piccoli

What does piccoli mean?
Piccoli means a surname from Italian.
What is piccoli the plural of?
Piccoli is the plural of piccolo.
What part of speech is piccoli?
Piccoli is a proper noun.

Words near piccoli in the dictionary

  1. Piccirilli
  2. Piccirillis
  3. Piccirillo
  4. Piccirillos
  5. Picco
  6. piccoli
  7. Piccolis
  8. piccolo
  9. piccoloist
  10. piccoloists
  11. piccolos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piccoli (page history and authors); Piccoli (page history and authors); piccolo (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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