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guitar

gui·tar
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [gi-tahr]
    • /gɪˈtɑr/
    • /ɡɪˈtɑː/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [gi-tahr]
    • /gɪˈtɑr/

Definitions of guitar word

  • noun guitar a stringed musical instrument with a long, fretted neck, a flat, somewhat violinlike body, and typically six strings, which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. 1
  • noun guitar A stringed musical instrument with a fretted fingerboard, typically incurved sides, and six or twelve strings, played by plucking or strumming with the fingers or a plectrum. 1
  • variable noun guitar A guitar is a musical instrument with six strings and a long neck. You play the guitar by plucking or strumming the strings. 0
  • noun guitar a plucked stringed instrument originating in Spain, usually having six strings, a flat sounding board with a circular sound hole in the centre, a flat back, and a fretted fingerboard. Range: more than three octaves upwards from E on the first leger line below the bass staff 0
  • noun guitar a musical instrument related to the lute but having a flat back and usually six strings that are plucked or strummed with the fingers or a plectrum 0
  • noun guitar (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick). 0
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Origin of guitar

First appearance:

before 1615
One of the 41% oldest English words
1615-25; < Spanish guitarra < Arabic kītārah ≪ Greek kithára kithara

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Parts of speech for Guitar

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Guitar

guitar popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Related words

  • acoustic guitar

    an ordinary guitar, which produces its normal sound through the sounding board and is not amplified in any way

  • steel guitar

    an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.

  • air guitar

    an imaginary guitar played while miming to rock music

  • hawaiian guitar

    a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers.

  • retronym

    a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch .

  • twelve-string guitar

    an acoustic guitar having twelve strings instead of six, with each pair tuned an octave apart, and more difficult to play than the standard guitar.
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