brass band

noun

: a band consisting chiefly or solely of brass and percussion instruments

Examples of brass band in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Attendees can test out instruments and learn to conduct a band before a brass band performance. Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023 Marching bands are pivotal to Carnival season and add an element that only the home of jazz, second lines, and brass bands can. Cierra Chenier, Essence, 12 Feb. 2024 Attendees can walk with SeaWorld performers and the Mardi Gras brass band and dance through park pathways to lively music. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024 The bowls have a purpose: to scoop up servings of mescal punch from a 55-gallon drum at a downtown park, where celebrants dance as a brass band blares away. Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024 The sounds of classic rock, brass bands and orchestral music fill the air from four stages, including one just for up-and-coming talents. Adele Chapin, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023 Opening comments will be made by UC Riverside professor Xochitl Chavez, whose current work focuses on second-generation Zapotec brass bands in Los Angeles and transborder relationships with their communities of origin in Oaxaca, Mexico. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023 Outside, the streets were thronged with brass bands. Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023 Still, Revell Andrews, even as a shy young teenager, picked up on the need for the instrument’s stable foundation in the brass band arrangements his kin play virtually every day in their city’s streets and clubs and across the world. Michelle Krupa, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'brass band.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of brass band was in 1827

Dictionary Entries Near brass band

Cite this Entry

“Brass band.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brass%20band. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

Kids Definition

brass band

noun
: a band made up of brass and percussion instruments

More from Merriam-Webster on brass band

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!