guitar

Meanings

Noun

• A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
• Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

Verb

• To play the guitar.

Related

Similar words

• axe
• gat

Narrower meaning words

• acoustic guitar
• electric guitar

Broader meaning words

• chordophone
• stringed instrument

Origin

• From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة, from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα. cithara, cither, and zither.