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SAMISEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does samisen mean?
• SAMISEN (noun)
The noun SAMISEN has 1 sense:
1. a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum
Familiarity information: SAMISEN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
samisen; shamisen
Hypernyms ("samisen" is a kind of...):
stringed instrument (a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound)
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