guitar

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English

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An acoustic guitar

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Etymology

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

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Noun

guitar (plural guitars)

  1. (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).
    Learning to strum the guitar rhythmically is essential.
    She was carrying her guitar in a fancily-decorated case.
    The band is looking for a new guitar player.
  2. (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.

Synonyms

  • axe (slang)
  • gat (New Zealand slang)

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Verb

guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)

  1. (informal) To play the guitar.
    • 2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 139:
      We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.

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Etymology

From guit +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

Verb

guitar (first-person singular present guito, first-person singular preterite guití, past participle guitat)

  1. (intransitive) to kick, to buck (of horses and mules)

Conjugation

    Conjugation of guitar (first conjugation)
infinitive guitar
gerund guitant
past participle masculine feminine
singular guitat guitada
plural guitats guitades
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu ell/ella
vostè 		nosaltres
nós 		vosaltres
vós 		ells/elles
vostès
present guito guites guita guitem guiteu guiten
imperfect guitava guitaves guitava guitàvem guitàveu guitaven
future guitaré guitaràs guitarà guitarem guitareu guitaran
preterite guití guitares guità guitàrem guitàreu guitaren
conditional guitaria guitaries guitaria guitaríem guitaríeu guitarien
subjunctive jo tu ell/ella
vostè 		nosaltres
nós 		vosaltres
vós 		ells/elles
vostès
present guiti guitis guiti guitem guiteu guitin
imperfect guités guitessis guités guitéssim guitéssiu guitessin
imperative — tu vostè nosaltres vosaltres
vós 		vostès
affirmative — guita guiti guitem guiteu guitin
negative (no) — no guitis no guiti no guitem no guiteu no guitin

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Pronunciation

Noun

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

  1. guitar

Inflection

Declension of guitar
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative guitar guitaren guitarer guitarerne
genitive guitars guitarens guitarers guitarernes
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