What does guitar mean?

Definitions for guitar
gɪˈtɑrgui·tar

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. guitarnoun

    a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking

Wiktionary

  1. guitarnoun

    A stringed musical instrument, usually with fretted fingerboard and 6 strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

  2. guitarverb

    To play the guitar.

  3. Etymology: From guitarra, from قيثارة, from cithara, from κιθάρα. Compare cither.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Guitarnoun

    A stringed instrument of musick.

    Etymology: ghitara, Italian; guiterre, French.

    Sallads and eggs, and lighter fare,
    Tune the Italian spark’s guitar. Matthew Prior.

Wikipedia

  1. Guitar

    Guitar is the first single from Princes 2007 album Planet Earth. This song was number 39 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007. The digital single was released in MP3 format through a partnership with Verizon Wireless, and O2. The music video for the song, featuring his current dancers "The Twinz" premiered on the Verizon website. It was Directed by Milos Twilight, and produced by Prince and Milos Twilight , through Umania Digital Studios and Twilight Films. The song was released to radio stations on June 11, while the CD single format was released worldwide on July 9. Although not as successful on the charts as many of his other songs, "Guitar" entered the Top 40 of the singles charts in four countries: Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan, where it peaked at number 10 on the singles chart.

ChatGPT

  1. guitar

    A guitar is a stringed musical instrument, typically with a hollow wooden body, fretted neck, and six strings, which are plucked or strummed to produce sound. Variations of the guitar include electric, acoustic, classical, bass, and others. It originated in Spain in the 15th century, and is widely used in various forms of music such as folk, country, blues, pop, rock, and jazz. It's played either by using fingers or a guitar pick. The sound is amplified by the resonance of the guitar body in acoustical guitars while electric guitars use electronic amplification.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Guitarnoun

    a stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers

  2. Etymology: [F. guitare; cf. Pr., Sp., & Pg.guitarra, It. chitarra; all fr. Gr. ; cf. L. cithara. Cf. Cittern, Gittern.]

Wikidata

  1. Guitar

    The guitar is a string instrument of the chordophone family constructed from wood and strung with either nylon or steel strings. The modern guitar was preceded by the lute, vihuela, four-course renaissance guitar and five-course baroque guitar, all of which contributed to the development of the modern six-string instrument. There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of an acoustic guitar is produced by the vibration of the strings, which is amplified by the body of the guitar, which acts as a resonating chamber. The classical guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive fingerpicking technique. Electric guitars, introduced in the 1930s, use an amplifier that can electronically manipulate and shape the tone. Early amplified guitars employed a hollow body, but a solid body was eventually found more suitable, as it was less prone to feedback. Electric guitars have had a continuing profound influence on popular culture. Guitars are recognized as a primary instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal, punk, reggae, rock, soul, and many forms of pop.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Guitar

    gi-tär′, n. a six-stringed musical instrument, somewhat like the lute, well adapted for accompanying the voice. [Fr. guitare—L. cithara—Gr. kithara, a lyre or lute. See Cithern.]

Editors Contribution

  1. guitar

    An instrument to create sound and play music.

    Guitars are created in many forms, shapes, sizes, styles and sounds.


    Submitted by MaryC on June 29, 2015  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. GUITAR

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Guitar is ranked #65593 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Guitar surname appeared 302 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Guitar.

    94% or 284 total occurrences were White.
    5.3% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'guitar' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3525

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'guitar' in Nouns Frequency: #1267

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of guitar in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of guitar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of guitar in a Sentence

  1. Dave Coulier:

    I ’ll tell you the kind of person she is, when my sister Sharon was dying with cancer, Alanis was living in Toronto. My sister was in Detroit. She actually drove to Detroit with her guitar and sat with my sister playing songs and singing to my sister in the hospital. That’s the kind of human she is. So I’ve never had anything bad to say about her. She’s lovely.

  2. Roger McGuinn:

    My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.

  3. Guy Clark:

    All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

  4. Manuel Rodriguez:

    People will buy more our instruments made in Spain than made in China, in China the labor is going up, so it's going be difficult to compete and I think that's our next challenge is to express and to show the Spanish guitar is back in Spain.

  5. J. R. Martin:

    If discord has to enter and sometime fill the room, may it be as simple as a guitar out of tune. J. R. Martin

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