Definitions for trombone

trombone trom·bone

Spelling: [trom-bohn, trom-bohn]
IPA: /trɒmˈboʊn, ˈtrɒm boʊn/

Trombone is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 252 anagrams from letters in trombone (bemnoort).

Definitions for trombone

noun

  1. a musical wind instrument consisting of a cylindrical metal tube expanding into a bell and bent twice in a U shape, usually equipped with a slide (slide trombone)

Origin of trombone

1715-25; Italian, equivalent to tromb(a) trumpet (Provençal Germanic; compare Old High German trumpa, trumba horn, trumpet) + -one augmentative suffix

Examples for trombone

He came from the fatherland; and his great specialty was to play on the trombone.

The trombone blatted and the orchestra roared with laughter.

His voice was as thrilling as a trombone, and his words did not matter.

While his trombone skills are decent, he certainly draws a crowd—or rather, a herd.

All you had to do was board with your submachine gun in a trombone case, as Martin McNally did at St. Louis airport in 1972.

Instead of spoofing it, Farmer Derek plays it on trombone in an open field.

There was never any one criterion for how every trombone or tenor saxophone or singer should sound.

And then, gee, a blast of the trombone and she would show them what a star was, a real one!

In summer, when they were in bloom, he used to sit there with his friend that played the trombone.

He was playing his best on the trombone; and one of the boys cried out, "Louder!"

Word Value for trombone
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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