fife

See also: Fife and Fifer

English
A fife

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /faɪf/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪf

Etymology 1

From German Pfeife. Doublet of pipe. The word is unrelated to Fife in Scotland.

Noun

fife (plural fifes)

  1. A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
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Translations

Verb

fife (third-person singular simple present fifes, present participle fifing, simple past and past participle fifed)

  1. To play this instrument.

Numeral

fife

  1. Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion with fire.

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Anagrams

Finnish

Etymology

From English fife.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfife/, [ˈfife̞]
  • Rhymes: -ife
  • Syllabification(key): fi‧fe

Noun

fife

  1. (music) fife

Declension
Inflection of fife (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative fife fifet
genitive fifen fifejen
partitive fifeä fifejä
illative fifeen fifeihin
singular plural
nominative fife fifet
accusative nom. fife fifet
gen. fifen
genitive fifen fifejen
partitive fifeä fifejä
inessive fifessä fifeissä
elative fifestä fifeistä
illative fifeen fifeihin
adessive fifellä fifeillä
ablative fifeltä fifeiltä
allative fifelle fifeille
essive fifenä fifeinä
translative fifeksi fifeiksi
instructive — fifein
abessive fifettä fifeittä
comitative — fifeineen
Possessive forms of fife (type valo)
possessor singular plural
1st person fifeni fifemme
2nd person fifesi fifenne
3rd person fifensä

Synonyms

Italian

Noun

fife f

  1. plural of fifa
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