Definition of reed

What does the word reed mean? Find synonyms, antonyms and the meaning of the word reed in our free online dictionary! Find words starting with reed and anagrams of reed.

reed - 6 definitions

- noun
1. reed -- tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
2. Reed -- United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)
synonyms: Reed, John Reed
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
3. Reed -- United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
synonyms: Reed, Walter Reed
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
4. reed -- a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it; "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"
synonyms: vibrating reed
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
5. beating-reed instrument -- a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
synonyms: beating-reed instrument, reed instrument
Source:WordNet 3.0
 
- verb
6. reed, reeds -- to fasten with reeds
synonyms: reeds, reeded
Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language
 

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