Home › Words › D › dulciandulciandulcian means A Renaissance bass woodwind instrument, with a double reed and a folded conical bore.EtymologyFrom German Dulzian, or a variant of dulciana.nounA Renaissance bass woodwind instrument, with a double reed and a folded conical boreDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.dulzaina 71% match — A Spanish double reed musical instrument in the oboe family. vs dulcian →dulciana 67% match — An organ stop with a sweet-sounding tone. vs dulcian →bassanello 66% match — A Renaissance double-reed woodwind instrument. vs dulcian →buisine 64% match — A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal. vs dulcian →dulcijo 63% match — A type of three-stringed clawhammer banjo that is tuned diatonically, like a dulcimer, with a shortened third string and a drum resonator. vs dulcian →diaulos 62% match — An Ancient Greek wind instrument composed of two pipes connected at the base and often of different lengths, played similarly to an oboe. vs dulcian →shawm 62% match — A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body. vs dulcian →duduk 61% match — An Armenian woodwind instrument. vs dulcian →