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piccolo¹

  • /ˈpɪkələʊ/ UK
  • /ˈpɪkəloʊ/ US

Rhymes with -ɪkələʊ

Where it comes from

From Italian piccolo (“small”).

noun piccolos · piccoli

  1. A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.

    Similar: octave flute

  2. An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
  3. obsolete A piccolo piano.
  4. A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant. [A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.

    Similar: busser, commis waiter, omnibus

  5. New York, Southern US, US A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
  6. A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.

    Similar: quarter bottle, snipe

adjective

  1. Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments. There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet.

Piccolo²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian Piccolo.

proper noun Piccolos

  1. A surname from Italian.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: bit, little, small, pianino, pianette, cottage piano, spinet, fortepiano, barrel piano, pitchpipe, bagatelle, minikin, note, spinette, fife, kit violin

Translations

Every language

noun small, high-pitched transverse flute

Españolflautín, pícolo
日本語ピッコロ pikkoro
中文短笛 duǎndí
हिन्दीपिकॉलो pikŏlo
Kiswahilifilimbi ndogo
Portuguêsflautim, piccolo
Françaispiccolo
DeutschPiccoloflöte
Italianoottavino
Ελληνικάπίκολο píkolo
Românăpiccolo
Русскийпи́кколо píkkolo, фле́йта-пи́кколо fléjta-píkkolo

noun bottle of champagne

Françaisquart, piccolo
DeutschPiccolo
Italianopiccolo

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@misc{piccolo_2026,
  title = {piccolo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/piccolo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}