piano
noun
a musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.
pianos
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pluralof piano.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And it ends with Sabotage, where discordant pianos and jump-scare strings soundtrack her self-destruction.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
When he played the piano, he shared how he had lost two much-loved pianos when his house burnt down in the LA fires earlier this year.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
A cousin to self-playing player pianos, photoplayers automatically play music read out of perforated piano rolls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025
The music was played by 50 upright pianos, each of them with ever-so-slightly different tuning, amid a scattered chamber orchestra, the Klangforum Wien, of 25 other instruments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
“How else can you explain these houses, the iron deer, the pianos, the music?”
From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury
