fife
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
/ˈfaɪf/
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/ˈfaɪf/ · /ˈfʌɪf/
Definition of fife
9 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
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noun
- A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
verb
- To play this instrument.
num
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Used instead of five in radio communications, especially NATO and ICAO, to avoid confusion with fire or nine.
““Change course to two fife zero and reduce height to fifteen hundred feet.” That “fife,” thought Alan, sounded very affected; but it had a good survival value in a noisy background.”
name
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A traditional county of Scotland succeeded by Fife Region in 1975, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with landward boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire.
“Ross: Will you to Scone? Macduff: No, cousin, I'll to Fife.”
- A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A place in the United States:
- A surname.
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Etymology
From German Pfeife (“whistle, smoking pipe”). Doublet of pipe.
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