Banjo
['bændʒəʊ] or ['bændʒo]
Definition
(noun.) a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body.
Checker: Ophelia--From WordNet
Definition
n. a musical instrument of the guitar kind played with the fingers but without frets to guide the stopping having a long neck a body of stretched parchment like a drum and from five to nine catgut strings.
Editor: Rena
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a banjo, denotes that pleasant amusements will be enjoyed. To see a negro playing one, denotes that you will have slight worries, but no serious vexation for a season. For a young woman to see negroes with their banjos, foretells that she will fail in some anticipated amusement. She will have misunderstandings with her lover.
Edited by Carlos
Examples
- There was a sharp twang as of a broken banjo-string, and at the same instant an arrow appeared in the yellow hide of the crouching lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The air all round was intangible, neither here nor there, and there was an unreal noise of banjoes, or suchlike music. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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