A stringed instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower, and having a deeper, more sonorous tone.
An organ stop usually of eight-foot or four-foot pitch yielding stringlike tones.
[Italian, from Old Provençal, viola, probably of imitative origin.] vi·o'list n.
vi·o·la 2 (vī-ō'lə, vē-, vī'ə-lə) n. A plant of the genus Viola, which includes the violets and pansies, especially a variety having flowers resembling violets in size and shape and pansies in coloration.