Lexic.us

Definition of Guitar

1. Noun. A stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking.

Definition of Guitar

1. n. A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.

Definition of Guitar

1. Noun. A stringed musical instrument, usually with fretted fingerboard and 6 strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick). ¹

2. Verb. (rare) To play the guitar. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Guitar

1. a stringed musical instrument [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guitar

Literary usage of Guitar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Ancient' following item bearing on the question: " foure Egyptian guitar, ... The transitions whereby the cithara acquired a neck and became a guitar are ..."

2. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"Where, however, the instruments are not accurately enough described, we will simply follow the original terminology. The name guitar is most frequently ..."

3. Doniphan's Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California by John Taylor Hughes, Dewitt Clinton Allen, Charles R. Morehead (1907)
"General Odon guitar was born in Madison county, Kentucky, August 31, 1825. ... Odon guitar was of an adventurous spirit, and in 1843 he ran off from home ..."

4. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"Though thou art ever fair and kind, The forests ever green, Less oft is peace in Shelley's mind, Than calm in waters seen.i WITH A guitar, TO JAKE.2 ARIEL ..."

5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"The Spanish guitar of the present century, which is the kind now exclusively used, ... The guitar is the favorite instrument of the Spanish people, ..."

6. A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1854)
"the depressed end of our modern guitar ; and, indeed, since the neck was in a straight line with the body of the instrument, some contrivance of the kind ..."

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