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Meaning of Fife | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈfaɪf

Definitions

  1. A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music
  2. A traditional county of 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.
  3. A council area of Scotland, one of 32 created in 1996.
  4. A place in the United States:
  5. An unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas, named after Fife in Scotland.
  6. An unincorporated community in Goochland County, Virginia, named after the owner of the village site.
  7. A city in Pierce County, Washington, possibly named after William J. Fife.
  8. A surname.

Equivalents

العربية فايف
Cymraeg chwibanogl
Deutsch Pfeife Schwegel
Ελληνικά αυλός
Español pífano
Français Fife fifre
Հայերեն թութակ
Italiano fiffaro piffero
日本語 横笛
Português pífano pífaro pife
Русский дудка
Tagalog tipano

Examples

“Ross: Will you to Scone? Macduff: No, cousin, I'll to Fife.”

CEFR level

C2
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