BOWED STRINGED INSTRUMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bowed stringed instrument mean? 

• BOWED STRINGED INSTRUMENT (noun)
  The noun BOWED STRINGED INSTRUMENT has 1 sense:

1. stringed instruments that are played with a bow

  Familiarity information: BOWED STRINGED INSTRUMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOWED STRINGED INSTRUMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stringed instruments that are played with a bow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bowed stringed instrument; string

Context example:

the strings played superlatively well

Hypernyms ("bowed stringed instrument" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "bowed stringed instrument"):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bowed stringed instrument"):

bass fiddle; bass viol; bull fiddle; contrabass; double bass; string bass (largest and lowest member of the violin family)

cello; violoncello (a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing)

viol (any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family)

viola (a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower)

fiddle; violin (bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow)