BANJO (banjoes)

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Irregular inflected form: banjoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does banjo mean? 

• BANJO (noun)
  The noun BANJO has 1 sense:

1. a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body

  Familiarity information: BANJO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANJO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("banjo" is a kind of...):

stringed instrument (a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound)

Meronyms (parts of "banjo"):

fingerboard (a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers)

 Context examples 

The moon had risen higher, and floating in the Sound was a triangle of silver scales, trembling a little to the stiff, tinny drip of the banjoes on the lawn.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden, old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably and keeping in the corners—and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)