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.
Origin of guitar
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How to use guitar in a sentence
You, too, will be zipping along to the angular guitars and zigzagging, herky-jerky vocals.
The 10 Best Albums of 2014: Taylor Swift, Sia, Run the Jewels, and More | Marlow Stern | December 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTParliament had the horns and Funkadelic had the loud guitars, but we were just telling our stories.
George Clinton on Industry ‘Mobsters’ and How Nobody Wants to Listen to a Crackhead | Curtis Stephen | November 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOnly they swapped out the guitars in favor of trumpets and trombones.
Ohio State Marching Band Rock Out (With Their Tubas Out) | Alex Chancey, The Daily Beast Video | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn response, most big musical acts—even the ones with guys and guitars—have given up on the rock game at this point.
A few years after his first guitar-shop venture, he migrated to just outside Savannah, and launched Randy Wood Guitars.
Afterwards we danced till morning came, or sang to the sweet tinkle of the guitars.
Stories of California | Ella M. SextonIn my own youth, I sometimes danced with beer-light feet to the music of worldly guitars; and yet I reached a man's estate.
Blind Man's Lantern | Allen Kim LangThe bands were all inside the tennis courts, with their guitars and mixers and keyboards and even a drum kit.
Little Brother | Cory DoctorowInside, near the bar itself, two boys with guitars were playing and singing the tragi-comic peasant songs of the south.
The Five Arrows | Allan ChaseSome of the musicians formed small groups of four or five with banjos or guitars and provided entertainment to the rooms.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy Benson
British Dictionary definitions for guitar
/ (ɡɪˈtɑː) /
music 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: See also electric guitar, bass guitar, Hawaiian guitar
Origin of guitar
1Derived forms of guitar
- guitarist, noun
- guitar-like, adjective
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Cultural definitions for guitar
A stringed musical instrument (see strings) usually played by strumming or plucking. Guitars are widely used in folk music and, often amplified electronically, in country and western music and rock 'n' roll.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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