guitar
English

An acoustic guitar
Etymology
From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Compare zither.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɪˈtɑː(ɹ)/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɪˈtɑɹ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
- (Southern American English) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪ.tɑɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: gui‧tar
Noun
guitar (plural guitars)
- (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.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- acoustic guitar
- air guitar
- armónico guitar
- banjitar
- baritone guitar
- Baroque guitar
- bass guitar
- bowed guitar
- cigar box guitar
- classical guitar
- console steel guitar
- contraguitar
- eight-string guitar
- electric guitar
- flamenco guitar
- four-string guitar
- guitar cello
- guitarfish
- guitarist
- guitjo
- harp guitar
- lap steel guitar
- lead guitar
- lute guitar
- moon guitar
- nylon-string guitar
- parlor guitar
- pedal steel guitar
- Portuguese guitar
- resonator guitar
- rhythm guitar
- romantic guitar
- Russian guitar
- Schrammel guitar
- Selmer guitar
- seven-string guitar
- slide guitar
- Spanish guitar
- steel guitar
- tenor guitar
- twelve-stringed guitar
Descendants
Translations
musical instrument
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References
- 2000. The Acoustic Guitar Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Maintain an Acoustic Guitar. Larry Sandberg. Pg. 4.
Verb
guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)
- (rare) To play the guitar.
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of chordophones
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡitar/, [ˈɡ̊itˢɑːˀ]
Inflection
Declension of guitar
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | guitar | guitaren | guitarer | guitarerne |
genitive | guitars | guitarens | guitarers | guitarernes |
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