fife

«fife» in Mova's school dictionary: a small, high-sounding flute without keys, played mainly… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a fife, fifes); noun, proper (Fife)

meaning for a pupil

1) A fife is a small, high-sounding flute without keys, played mainly in military marching bands, often with drums. tree →

2) (a name) Fife is a region in eastern Scotland, between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay; St Andrews is in Fife. tree →

sense in the lessons

In music and history lessons, fife and drum bands marched with armies, such as in the American Revolution. In geography of Scotland, Fife is a council area and historic «Kingdom of Fife». Phrases: «fife and drum», «the Kingdom of Fife».

examples

• The boy played a fife in the marching band. tree →
• A fife sounds higher than a flute. tree →
• Fife and drum music led the soldiers. tree →
• St Andrews is a famous town in Fife. tree →
• We went camping on the coast of Fife. tree →
• Our music teacher showed us a wooden fife. tree →
• Ivan began playing on his fife, and forthwith they all fell a-dancing. tree →

note

Rhymes with «life». As a place name it takes a capital F.

In the corpora

• In Fife, Ruaridh, 9, hears the class trip is to a castle with a hundred steps.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fife» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.