Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small terra-cotta or plastic wind instrument with finger holes, a mouthpiece, and an elongated ovoid shape.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical instrument, hardly more than a toy, consisting of a fancifully shaped terra-cotta body with a whistle-like mouthpiece and a number of finger-holes. Several different sizes or varieties are made. The tone is soft, but sonorous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A kind of small simple wind instrument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Simpia (UID#225) on October 29th, 2009 at 4: 18 am there was always the minimap on/off in ocarina … totally useful. in every way. i swear. just give it a chance.
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On another subject, the ocarina is an easy-to-play, easy-to-learn, easy-to-teach circular flute, and the centre of the UK’s ocarina industry is in
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On another subject, the ocarina is an easy-to-play, easy-to-learn, easy-to-teach circular flute, and the centre of the UK’s ocarina industry is in
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Ängelholm is a pretty southern Swedish town, famed for its clay cuckoo manufacturing, a clay cuckoo being a kind of ocarina, which is a kind of flute.
The Guardian World News Jon Ronson 2012
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The name "ocarina" itself means as an ancient family of instrument (believed to date some 12,000 years), and one of the easiest instruments to learn.
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The name "ocarina" itself means as an ancient family of instrument (believed to date some 12,000 years), and one of the easiest instruments to learn.
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IPhone Ocarina - When you hear the word "ocarina", what do you think of?
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The name "ocarina" itself means as an ancient family of instrument (believed to date some 12,000 years), and one of the easiest instruments to learn.
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The name "ocarina" itself means as an ancient family of instrument (believed to date some 12,000 years), and one of the easiest instruments to learn.
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IPhone Ocarina - When you hear the word "ocarina", what do you think of?
caxton commented on the word ocarina
ocarina n, a simple wind instrument typically having an oval body with finger holes and a projecting mouthpiece
January 8, 2008
kewpid commented on the word ocarina
The funnest iPhone app ever!!!
November 10, 2008
elgiad007 commented on the word ocarina
An ocarina is mentioned in a scene of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
November 10, 2008
sarra commented on the word ocarina
I like the broccoli ocarina (broccarina?) — cf. YouTube.
I do have a completed make-it-yourself one in lovely orange cardboard. And can play jigs on it.
November 10, 2008
frindley commented on the word ocarina
That iPhone app isn't just amusing. It's bloody brilliant. Check it out: it actually responds to breath and articulation. It's a work of genius.
I almost wish I owned an iPhone.
November 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word ocarina
"It was one evening with the rain running in rivers that we cooked up a tune. From somewhere I had obtained an ocarina, and with Edgington banging on a box of matches we gradually bring the tune to life. The lyrics were:
The Rhumba
Roca-manfina Rhumba
It's a snappy little number
Roca-mana-fina way.
Caramba!
All the natives say Caramba.
Rocamanafina Rhumba
Rocamanafina way.
"- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall'.
April 25, 2009