Hautboy

Definition: Hautboy

Hautboy

Noun

1. A slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece.

Date "hautboy" was first used: 1575. (references)

Etymology: Hautboy \Haut"boy\, noun. [French expression hautbois, literally, high wood; haut high bois wood. So called on account of its high tone. See Haughty, Bush; and compare to Oboe.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Hautboy

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Hautboy (pron. Ho'-ooy). A strawberry; so called either from the haut bois (high woods) of Bohemia whence it was imported, or from its haut-bois (long-stalk). The latter is the more probable, and furnishes the etymology of the musical instrument also, which has a long mouth-reed. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Hautboy

Synonyms: hautbois (n), oboe (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hautboy

English words defined with "hautboy": Hautboyist, Hoboy. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Hautboy

Domain	Title
Books	The Eloquent Oboe: A History of the Hautboy from 1640 to 1760 (Oxford Early Music Series, Vol 19) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Giuseppe Sammartini: Six Solos for German Flute, Violin or Hautboy, Op. 13 (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Usage Frequency: Hautboy

"Hautboy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hautboy" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hautboy

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hautboy	25
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Modern Translations: Hautboy

Language		Translations for "hautboy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		oboe (oboe). (various references)

Bulgarian		обой (oboe). (various references)

Czech		hoboj (oboe). (various references)

Danish		spansk jordbær (hautboy strawberry). (various references)

Dutch		tuinaardbei (hautboy strawberry), grote bosaardbei (hautbois strawberry, hautboy strawberry). (various references)

Finnish		ukkomansikka (hautboy strawberry). (various references)

French		capronnier (hautboy strawberry). (various references)

German		Zimterdbeere (hautboy strawberry). (various references)

Greek		βαρύαυλοσ (bassoon). (various references)

Hungarian		oboa (oboe). (various references)

Italian		oboe (oboe). (various references)

Pig Latin		autboyhay

Portuguese		oboé (oboe, oboist), frequentador (frequently). (various references)

Romanian		oboi (oboe). (various references)

Russian		гобой (oboe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oboa. (various references)

Spanish		oboe (oboe). (various references)

Swedish		parksmultron (hautboy strawberry). (various references)

Turkish		obua (oboe). (various references)

Ukranian		гобой (oboe), мускусна суниця. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hautboy

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Fragaria elatior, Fragaria moschata. (various references)
French	1500-Modern	hautbois. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hautboy

Derivations
	Words beginning with "hautboy": hautboys. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hautboy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: haubois, hautboys. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hautboy"

Words rhyming with "hautboy" (pronounced 'Haut"boy'): Bushboy, Carboy, cowboy, Footboy, Henchboy, Hoboy, Lowboy, newsboy, Postboy, Potboy, schoolboy, Shopboy, tallboy, tomboy, Whiteboy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Hautboy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-h-o-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: about, bayou, bothy, outby, thuya, youth.
	-3 letters: abut, ahoy, auto, baht, bath, bhut, boat, bota, both, bout, buoy, habu, haut, hoya, oath, tabu, thou, toby, tuba.
	-4 letters: abo, aby, bah, bat, bay, boa, bot, boy, but, buy, hao, hat, hay, hob, hot, hoy, hub, hut, oat, out, tab, tao, tau, tho, thy, toy, tub, uta, yah, yob, you.
	-5 letters: ab, ah, at, ay, ba, bo, by, ha, ho, oh, oy, ta, to, uh, ut, ya, yo.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-h-o-t-u-y"
	+1 letter: hautboys.
	+3 letters: rubythroat.
	+4 letters: rubythroats.
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