violin

IPA: vaɪʌɫˈɪn

A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.
(inexact, sometimes proscribed) Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas, and cellos and sometimes further including the double bass.
(music, metonymically) The position of a violinist in an orchestra or group.

Examples of "violin" in Sentences

Campaign to get new students to enrol in violin classes.
The magic violin is given to her and she is able to play it from the heart.
And so it wasn't like I ever said oh, you know, violin is not my true love or is my true love.
The violin is a type of string instrument that can be played by vibrating its four strings with a bow.
Woolley had to reconstruct a missing part for the second violin from a similar Vivaldi work kept in Turin.
The violin is an integral part of this musical group; one of the most best known violinists was Don Silvestre Vargas, founder of the world renowned Mariachi Vargas of Tecalitlan.
"The mere fact I'm at an American university with the chance to learn whatever I want puts me in such a privileged group," says Bashore, a biochemistry major who also plays the violin, is learning Polish and helps raise start-up funds for a school for girls and women in Malawi, Africa.
But at least for a moment we might consider a different point of view, which I believe to be Wordsworth's, according to which the blessing of verse as well as violin is precisely the ability to forget about money and the economic base of all relations — about "getting and spending," to quote from the 1807 Poems 'best known sonnet.