stringed

[stringd]

adjective

1. fitted with strings (often used in combination).

   a five-stringed banjo.

2. produced or sounded by strings.

   stringed melodies.

stringed

/ strɪŋd /

adjective

1. (of musical instruments) having or provided with strings

Word History and Origins

Origin of stringed¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English strængede; string, -ed ³

Example Sentences

The wall paintings are adorned with candelabras, stringed instruments called lyres, white cranes and a delicate daisy.

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“Country Radio” provides a sense of heartsick nostalgia over a hopeful chorus of stringed instruments.

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Robert Hilton, a retired art teacher with an interest in African and Indian music, would wander over with a lute-like stringed instrument, or one of his other homemade instruments, to provide the entertainment.

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As she experiments between strumming up and down, the forceful strike gives the stringed instrument a more percussive feel.

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His grandfather was one of the first percussionists in the area and his grandmother played the oud, a lute-like stringed musical instrument common in the Middle East and Africa.

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