saxophone
n. countablen. a metal musical instrument that you play by blowing into it and pressing buttons with your fingers. It is very common in jazz music and has a curved shape.
n. a woodwind instrument with a conical metal body and a single-reed mouthpiece. Despite its brass construction, it is classified as a woodwind due to its reed-based sound production.
He plays the saxophone in a local jazz band.
The street performer played a soulful melody on his saxophone, drawing a large crowd of tourists.
While the saxophone is most famously associated with the improvisational freedom of jazz, it was originally designed to bridge the tonal gap between woodwinds and brass in military bands.
Borrowed from French saxophone, a combination of the surname of its inventor Adolphe Sax (1814–1894) + -o- + -phone (“something that makes a sound”), from Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice”). The first element surname is a variant of the German Sachs (“Saxon”). Analyzable as Sax + -o- + -phone.