Usually means: String instrument played with bow.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word violin:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. violin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. violin: Merriam-Webster
  3. violin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. violin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. violin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. violin: Vocabulary.com
  7. Violin, violin: Wordnik
  8. violin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Violin (exploded views), Violin: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. violin: Wiktionary
  11. violin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. violin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. violin: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. violin: Dictionary.com
  15. violin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. violin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. The Violin, Violin (album), Violin (disambiguation), Violin (film), Violin (novel), Violin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Violin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. violin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. violin: Rhymezone
  21. Violin, violn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. violin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Violin: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  24. Violin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. violin: FreeDictionary.org
  26. violin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. violin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. violin: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Violin: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  4. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Violin: Classical Music Guide

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. violin: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. violin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. violin: The Folk File
  3. The Violin: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See violinist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.
noun:  (inexact, sometimes proscribed) Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas and cellos, and sometimes further including the double bass.
noun:  (music, metonymically) A violinist in an orchestra or group.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.

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