guitar
noun
a stringed musical instrument with a long, fretted neck, a flat, somewhat violinlike body, and typically six strings, which are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
guitar-like
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a word derived from
guitar.
Example Sentences
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Combining ritual poetry with traditional music and dance, the Gnawa master is centre-stage, playing the main guitar-like instrument, the ghembri.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
A major element was traditional musical styles and instruments from all over the world: an Andean guitar-like charango, a Middle Eastern flute called a ney.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
Though elderly, he was active, farming and giving cuatro lessons — the Puerto Rican guitar-like instrument — on Saturday mornings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2018
Inside, a Venezuelan folk band strummed a bass guitar and two guitar-like instruments - a cuatro and a mandola - amid piles of blankets and bags of clothes.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 9, 2017
Manuel's eye glistened, and from somewhere behind the pawl-post he drew out a tiny, guitar-like thing with wire strings, which he called a nachette.
From Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
