piano

noun
/ˈpjænəʊ/

A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings.

Example

“The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.”

A kind of

keyboard instrument
stringed instrument
percussion instrument

Kinds of piano

mechanical piano
upright

Example sentences

“You can't take a piano to the beach.”
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“He composed a piano concerto last year.”
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Word history

From Italian "pianoforte".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “piano” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.