English
fife
see also: Fife
Noun

fife (plural fifes)

  1. A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
Translations
  • French: fifre
  • German: Schwegel, Pfeife
  • Italian: piffero, fiffaro
  • Portuguese: pífano, pífaro, pife
  • Russian: ду́дка
  • Spanish: pífano
Verb

fife (fifes, present participle fifing; past and past participle fifed)

  1. To play this instrument.
Numeral
  1. Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion.
Fife
Pronunciation Proper noun
  1. A traditional county in 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.
    • c. 1606, Macbeth, William Shakespeare, Act II, Scene 4, line 993:
      ROSS: Will you to Scone?
      MACDUFF: No, cousin, I'll to Fife.
  2. A council area in Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.


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