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Guitars - 2 dictionary results

gui⋅tar

[gi-tahr]
–noun
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.

Origin:
1615–25; < Sp guitarra < Ar kītārah ≪ Gk kithára kithara
gui·tar   (gĭ-tär')   
n.  A musical instrument having a flat-backed rounded body that narrows in the middle, a long fretted neck, and usually six strings, played by strumming or plucking.

[French guitare, from Spanish guitarra, from Greek kitharā, cithara.]
gui·tar'ist n.
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