FINGERBOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fingerboard mean? 

• FINGERBOARD (noun)
  The noun FINGERBOARD has 3 senses:

1. a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger

2. a bank of keys on a musical instrument

3. 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

  Familiarity information: FINGERBOARD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINGERBOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

fingerboard; fingerpost

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

guidepost; signpost (a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A bank of keys on a musical instrument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

clavier; fingerboard; piano keyboard

Hypernyms ("fingerboard" 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 ("fingerboard" 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 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

strip (thin piece of wood or metal)

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

banjo (a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body)

bowed stringed instrument; string (stringed instruments that are played with a bow)

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

lute (chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard)

mandolin (a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum)