Guitar
[gɪ'tɑː] or [ɡɪ'tɑr]
Definition
(noun.) a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking.
Typist: Weldon--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Ned
Definition
n. a six-stringed musical instrument somewhat like the lute well adapted for accompanying the voice.
Typist: Serena
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you have a guitar, or is playing one in a dream, signifies a merry gathering and serious love making. For a young woman to think it is unstrung or broken, foretells that disappointments in love are sure to overtake her. Upon hearing the weird music of a guitar, the dreamer should fortify herself against flattery and soft persuasion, for she is in danger of being tempted by a fascinating evil. If the dreamer be a man, he will be courted, and will be likely to lose his judgment under the wiles of seductive women. If you play on a guitar, your family affairs will be harmonious.
Typist: Marion
Examples
- Guitar and mandolin are agreeable instruments for amateurs, but are never used in orchestral music. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There was a means, too, of rendering her delightful, by inducing her to take her guitar and sing and play. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The guitar stopped. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The guitar thudded with chorded applause for the singer. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I know another verse, the gypsy said and the guitar commenced Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- When she had finished, she gave the guitar to Agatha, who at first declined it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- What has been said of the piano applies as well to the violin, guitar, and mandolin. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And we fell back on the guitar-case, and the flower-painting, and the songs about never leaving off dancing, Ta ra la! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Instruments in which the strings are set into motion by plucking--harp, guitar, mandolin. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Then inside the cave he could hear the gypsy starting to sing and the soft chording of a guitar. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The closet whispered, the fireplace sighed, the little washing-stand ticked, and one guitar-string played occasionally in the chest of drawers. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Edited by Julius