guitar
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
guitar/ɡɪˈtɑː(r)/
▶noun a stringed musical instrument with a fretted fingerboard and six or twelve strings, played by plucking or strumming with the fingers or a plectrum.
– derivatives
guitarist noun.
guitarist noun.
– origin C17: from Sp. guitarra (partly via Fr.), from Gk kithara, denoting an instrument similar to the lyre.
'guitar' also found in these Oxford entries:
air guitar
- axe
- balalaika
- banjo
- barbershop
- barré
- bass
- cab
- charango
- chitarrone
- combo
- country music
- cuatro
- dobro
- electric guitar
- electro-acoustic
- fingerpick
- flamenco
- flat-top
- fret
- fuzz
- fuzzbox
- fuzzy
- gittern
- grunge
- guitarfish
- Hawaiian guitar
- headstock
- machine head
- neck
- o.n.o.
- overdrive
- pedal
- pedal steel guitar
- phasing
- pick
- pickup
- plectrum
- rack
- retronym
- riffage
- scratchplate
- semi-acoustic
- slap bass
- slide guitar
- soukous
- Spanish guitar
- stack
- strum
