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Webster 1913 Edition


Violin

Viˊo-lin′

,
Noun.
[It.
violino
, dim. of
viola
. See
Viol
.]
(Mus.)
A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.
☞ The violin is distinguished for the brilliancy and gayety, as well as the power and variety, of its tones, and in the orchestra it is the leading and most important instrument.

Webster 1828 Edition


Violin

VI'OLIN

,
Noun.
A musical instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle; one of the most perfect and most powerful instruments that has been invented.

Definition 2024


Violin

Violin

See also: violin and violín

Czech

Adjective

Violin

  1. possessive of Viola: Viola's

violin

violin

See also: Violin and violín

English

Noun

violin (plural violins)

  1. (music) A musical four-string instrument, generally played with a bow or by plucking the string, with the pitch set by pressing the strings at the appropriate place with the fingers; also any instrument of the violin family.
  2. (music) A violinist.
    The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.

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Verb

violin

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive form of violar
  2. third-person plural imperative form of violar

Danish

Etymology

From Italian violino, diminutive form of viola with diminutive suffix -ino.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /violiːn/, [vioˈliːˀn]

Noun

violin c (singular definite violinen, plural indefinite violiner)

  1. violin

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