CLAVIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clavier mean? 

• CLAVIER (noun)
  The noun CLAVIER has 2 senses:

1. a bank of keys on a musical instrument

2. a stringed instrument that has a keyboard

  Familiarity information: CLAVIER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAVIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bank of keys on a musical instrument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

clavier; fingerboard; piano keyboard

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

keyboard (device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like)

Holonyms ("clavier" is a part of...):

accordion; squeeze box (a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player)

organ; pipe organ (wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard)

forte-piano; piano; pianoforte (a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stringed instrument that has a keyboard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

clavier; Klavier

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

keyboard instrument (a musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard)

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clavier"):

cembalo; harpsichord (a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots)