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Webster 1913 Edition
Violin
Viˊo-lin′
,Noun.
(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
violin
English
Noun
violin (plural violins)
- (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.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.
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- (music) A violinist.
- The first violin often plays the lead melody lines in a string quartet.
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string instrument
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Verb
violin
- third-person plural present subjunctive form of violar
- 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)
Declension
Inflection of violin
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | violin | violinen | violiner | violinerne |
| genitive | violins | violinens | violiners | violinernes |
References
- “violin” in Den Danske Ordbog