Usually means: Stringed instrument played with fingers.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word guitar:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. guitar: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. guitar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guitar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. guitar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. guitar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Guitar, guitar: Wordnik
  7. guitar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. guitar: Wiktionary
  9. guitar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. guitar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. guitar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. guitar: Dictionary.com
  13. guitar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. guitar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Guitar (Frank Zappa album), Guitar (Sonny Sharrock album), Guitar (Tony Rice album), Guitar (disambiguation), Guitar (song), Guitar, The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), The Guitar (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Guitar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. guitar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. guitar: Rhymezone
  19. guitar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. guitar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. guitar: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. guitar: Free Dictionary
  23. guitar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. guitar: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Musical Instruments (No longer online)
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. guitar: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. guitar: The Folk File
  2. The Guitar: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See guitaring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
noun:  (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
verb:  (informal) To play the guitar.

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