STRADIVARIUS

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

1. Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and created violins of unequaled tonal quality (1644?-1737)

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

• STRADIVARIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and created violins of unequaled tonal quality (1644?-1737)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Antonio Stradivari; Antonius Stradivarius; Stradivari; Stradivarius

Instance hypernyms:

violin maker (someone who makes violins)

 Context examples 

We had a pleasant little meal together, during which Holmes would talk about nothing but violins, narrating with great exultation how he had purchased his own Stradivarius, which was worth at least five hundred guineas, at a Jew broker’s in Tottenham Court Road for fifty-five shillings.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)