Usually means: Woodwind instrument with double reed.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word oboe:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. oboe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oboe: Merriam-Webster
  3. oboe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oboe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oboe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oboe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Oboe, oboe: Wordnik
  8. oboe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Oboe, Oboe, Oboe: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. oboe: Wiktionary
  11. oboe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. oboe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. oboe: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. oboe: Dictionary.com
  15. oboe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. oboe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. OBOE (disambiguation), Oboe (navigation), Oboe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Oboe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. oboe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. oboe: Rhymezone
  21. Oboe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. oboe: FreeDictionary.org
  23. oboe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. oboe: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Oboe: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. OBOE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Oboe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. OBOE: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. oboe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. oboe, oboe: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See oboeing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) 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.
noun:  (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter O.
noun:  (programming) Initialism of off-by-one error. [(programming) A logic error where a value, typically the number of iterations of a loop, is specified incorrectly, being either 1 less or 1 more than it should be.]

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