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# fife

«fife» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, high-sounding flute without keys, played mainly…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fife, fifes); noun, proper (Fife)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fife is a small, high-sounding flute without keys, played mainly in military marching bands, often with drums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fife/#m1)

2) (a name) Fife is a region in eastern Scotland, between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Tay; St Andrews is in Fife. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fife/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In music and history lessons, fife and drum bands marched with armies, such as in the American Revolution. In geography of Scotland, Fife is a council area and historic «Kingdom of Fife». Phrases: «fife and drum», «the Kingdom of Fife».

### examples

- The boy played a fife in the marching band. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fife/#x1)
- A fife sounds higher than a flute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fife/#x2)
- Fife and drum music led the soldiers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fife/#x3)
- St Andrews is a famous town in Fife. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fife/#x4)
- We went camping on the coast of Fife. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fife/#x5)
- Our music teacher showed us a wooden fife. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fife/#x6)
- Ivan began playing on his fife, and forthwith they all fell a-dancing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fife/#x7)

### note

Rhymes with «life». As a place name it takes a capital F.

### In the corpora

- [In Fife, Ruaridh, 9, hears the class trip is to a castle with a hundred steps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/506-a-sibling-with-a-disability-or-illness-or-who-left-home/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fife» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fife/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.