Amati

[ah-mah-tee]

noun

1. Nicolò 1596–1684, Italian violinmaker, one of a famous family of 16th- and 17th-century violinmakers: teacher of Antonio Stradivari.

2. a violin made by a member of this family.

Amati

noun

1. a family of Italian violin makers, active in Cremona in the 16th and 17th centuries, esp Nicolò (nikoˈlɔ), 1596–1684, who taught Guarneri and Stradivari

2. a violin or other stringed instrument made by any member of this family

Example Sentences

Federica Amati is a research fellow at the School of Public Health at Imperial College London.

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The ill-fated feline belonged to San Marino's tourism and posts minister Federico Pedini Amati, a former leader of the tiny landlocked republic.

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Amati's McKenzie thinks the tricky environment may begin to improve even if house prices decline next year and the volume of housing transactions falls.

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The instruments — a harp by Stradivari and a cello by the master luthier Nicola Amati — appear to have been made from the same 17th-century spruce.

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That could have been Amati, who, by the mid-17th century, was well established and also living in Cremona, a city in what is now Italy.

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Related Words

• fiddle