"sousaphone" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sousaphones [plural]
Etymology: Named after American composer and conductor John Philip Sousa + -phone. Etymology templates: {{named-after/list|composer and conductor||||}} composer and conductor, {{!}} |, {{lang|en|John Philip Sousa}} John Philip Sousa, {{named-after|en|John Philip Sousa|nat=American|occ=composer and conductor|wplink==}} Named after American composer and conductor John Philip Sousa, {{suffix|en||-phone}} + -phone Head templates: {{en-noun}} sousaphone (plural sousaphones)
  1. A valved brass instrument with the same length as a tuba, but shaped differently so that the bell is above the head, that the valves are situated directly in front of the musical instruments and a few inches above the waist, and that most of the weight rests on one shoulder. Categories (topical): Brass instruments Derived forms: sousaphonist Translations (brass instrument): sousafón [masculine] (Asturian), sousáfono [masculine] (Asturian), sousàfon [masculine] (Catalan), suzafon [masculine] (Czech), sousafoon [masculine] (Dutch), sousafoon [masculine] (Dutch Low Saxon), suzafono (Esperanto), sousafoni (Finnish), soubassophone [masculine] (French), Sousafon [neuter] (German), Sousaphon [neuter] (German), סוזאפון [masculine] (Hebrew), סוּזָפוֹן (suzafon) [masculine] (Hebrew), szouszafon (Hungarian), súsafón [masculine] (Irish), susafono [masculine] (Italian), スーザフォン (sūzafon) (Japanese), 수자폰 (sujapon) (Korean), Sousaphon [masculine] (Luxembourgish), сузафон (suzafon) [masculine] (Macedonian), sousafon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), sousafon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), sousafòn [masculine] (Occitan), سوسافون (susâfon) (Persian), suzaphon [masculine] (Polish), sousafone [masculine] (Portuguese), сузафо́н (suzafón) [masculine] (Russian), су̀зафо̄н [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), sùzafōn [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), susáfono (Spanish), sousafon [common-gender] (Swedish), ซูซาโฟน (soo-saa-fohn) (Thai), suzafon (Turkish), сузафон (suzafon) [masculine] (Ukrainian), kèn sousa (Vietnamese)

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