violin
/ˌvaɪ.əˈlɪn/ noun A2- A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow. · When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like this, it's a violin.
- Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas and cellos, and sometimes further including the double bass.
- A violinist in an orchestra or group. · The violins are seated with sufficient elbow room.· She is first violin in the London Symphony Orchestra.
Plural violins
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She was said to have a weak chest, and like Antonia in the Cremona Violin, she would die one day while singing.
Might I ask you to hand me my violin, and we will postpone all further thought upon this business until we have had the advantage of meeting Dr.
The overture to the second act began; and, at the first sound of the leader’s bow across his violin, Franz observed the sleeper slowly arise and approach the Greek girl, who turned around to say a few words to him, and then, leaning forward again on the railing of her box, she became as absorbed as before in what was going on.
“Do you include violin-playing in your category of rows?” he asked, anxiously.
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