Usually means: Large ensemble, jazz orchestral music.
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  1. big band: Merriam-Webster
  2. big band: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. big band: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. big band: Collins English Dictionary
  5. big band: Vocabulary.com
  6. big-band, big band: Wordnik
  7. big band: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. big band: Wiktionary
  9. big band: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. big band: Dictionary.com
  11. Big Band (Charlie Parker album), Big Band (Joe Henderson album), Big Band (album), Big Band, Big-band, Big band, The Big Band: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. big band: Rhymezone
  13. big band: FreeDictionary.org
  14. big band: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Big-band, big band: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. big band: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (big band)

noun:  (countable) A large dance or jazz band of 10 to 30 musicians usually featuring improvised solos by lead players, but otherwise playing orchestrated music.
noun:  (uncountable, music) The music produced by a jazz big band.

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