Violin

Quick meaning: Violin is a noun meaning (music, metonymic) A violinist in an orchestra or group.

Meaning

(music, metonymic) A violinist in an orchestra or group.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.
2. (music) 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.
3. (inexact, sometimes proscribed) Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas and cellos, and sometimes further including the double bass.

Example Sentences

The violins are seated with sufficient elbow room.

She is first violin in the London Symphony Orchestra.

When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like this, it's a violin.

The string quartet, one of the most popular groupings in chamber music, is composed entirely of violins: two violins proper, one viola, and one cello.

Word Forms

• violins
• violining
• violined

Synonyms for violin

Depending on context, synonyms include fiddle, crowd.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fiddle, qin, piano, fiddler, fiddling, ace.

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