guitar
IPA: gɪtˈɑr
noun
- (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).
- (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
verb
- (informal) To play the guitar.
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Examples of "guitar" in Sentences
- Deron you may already know, the guitar is an ovation.
- Surely this guitar is a dream for guitar player … maybe too expensive: P
- MORNING DEW BONNIE DOBSON, vocals and guitar ART ROSENBAUM, guitar** and banjo*
- The drums only flutter in and out at key moments, but the guitar is a backbone.
- The fingering on the guitar is actuated by solenoids also (below), which connect to levers (above).
- MORNING DEW BONNIE DOBSON, vocals and guitar ART ROSENBAUM, guitar** and banjo* '' Morning Dew ", also known as" (Walk Me
- MORNING DEW BONNIE DOBSON, vocals and guitar ART ROSENBAUM, guitar** and banjo* '' Morning Dew ", also known as" (Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew ", is a post-apocalyptic folk-rock song written by Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson in 1962, that has become a standard.
- I trael back and forth with my washtub base with no problems, and a guitar is all right too, but if you have that van full of amps and speakers I think you are going to have to talk pretty fast and probably have to come across with some loot, and if they think you are coming across for professional reasons, they aren't likely to let you do it on a tourist visa.
- Credit for the development of what we call the guitar usually goes to Spain and Portugal, but when you think about the Persian word tar and the word "guitar" and the more than 1,000-year-old Persian sculptures that show figures playing string instruments similar to the tar, does it seem that we aren't giving adequate credit to Persian culture when it comes to the history of the guitar?
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