guitar
Syllables: gui·tar/ɡɪˈtɑː//ɡɪˈtɑɹ/
guitar noun: 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
guitar (plural guitars)
- 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.
- 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
guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)
- To play the guitar.
- We guitared and drummed and head banged and pianoed.2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 139
guitar meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
guitar in Hindi
- musical instrument
- गिटार giṭār
guitar in Tamil
- musical instrument
- கித்தார் kittār
guitar in Marathi
- musical instrument
- गिटार giṭār
guitar in Urdu
- musical instrument
- گِٹار giṭār
More languagesFewer languages
- guitar in Bengali
- গিটার giṭar
- guitar in Telugu
- గిటారు giṭāru
- guitar in Malayalam
- ഗിതാർ, ഒരു സംഗീതോപകരണം, വീണ, സാരംഗി
- guitar in Kannada
- ಗಿಟಾರು, ಸೀಮೆವೀಣೆ
- guitar in Sinhala
- ගිටාරය giṭāraya
- guitar in Pashto
- ګيتار gitār
- guitar in Tagalog
- gitara
- guitar in Arabic
- قِيثَارَة qīṯāra, جِيتَار gitār
- guitar in Malay
- gitar
- guitar in Indonesian
- gitar
- guitar in Thai
- กีตาร์ gii-dtâa
- guitar in Vietnamese
- đàn ghi-ta, ghi-ta, lục huyền cầm, tây ban cầm
- guitar in Myanmar
- ဂီတာ gita
Examples of guitar in a sentence
- Jenny is a talented musician, playing the cello, saxophone, piano and guitar.
- You need to tune that guitar: the G string sounds dirty.
- I was playing the acoustic guitar and my girlfriend was playing the drums.
Synonyms of guitar
Forms of guitar
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | guitars |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | gittar |
| alternative form (obsolete) | guittar |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | guitars |
| present participle | guitaring |
| past participle | guitared |
| past | guitared |
Origin of guitar
From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic قِيثَارَة (qīṯāra), from Ancient Greek κῐθᾰ́ρᾱ (kĭthắrā). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither, but not related to sitar.
Words formed from guitar
- acoustic guitar
- air guitar
- armónico guitar
- banjitar
- baritone guitar
- Baroque guitar
- bass guitar
- bottleneck guitar
- bowed guitar
- cigar-box guitar
- cigar box guitar
- classical guitar
- clitar
- console steel guitar
- contraguitar
- eight-string guitar
- electric guitar
- flamenco guitar
- four-string guitar
- guitalele
- guitalin
- guitar cello
- guitar-cello
- guitar fiddle
- guitarfish
- guitar hero
- guitarist
- guitaristic
- guitarless
- guitarlike
- guitarmony
- guitar pick
- guitar-player
- guitar pop
- guitarscape
- guitar string
- guitarwork
- guitary
- guitjo
- harp guitar
- harp-guitar
- Hawaiian guitar
- keytar
- lap steel guitar
- lead guitar
- lutar
- lute-guitar
- lute guitar
- lyre-guitar
- moon guitar
- nylon-string guitar
- palm wine guitar
- parlor guitar
- parlour guitar
- pedal steel guitar
- Portuguese guitar
- resonator guitar
- rhythm guitar
- romantic guitar
- Russian guitar
Phrases with guitar
- guitar picks
- slide guitar
- steel guitar
- tenor guitar
- guitar cellos
- Selmer guitar
- guitar fiddles
- guitar strings
- Spanish guitar
- Schrammel guitar
- table steel guitar
- steel string guitar
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with guitar
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- water bar
- char
- tar
- var
- AAR
- bazaar
- caviar
- lodestar
- Mullingar
- Myanmar
- scar
- ajar
- arr
- barre
- boudoir
- cigar
- cymar
- czar
- disbar
- gar
- haar
- instar
- lar
- Loire
- noir
- NPR
- omar
- schwar
- their
- tl;dr
- tsar
- TTR
- upbar
- USSR
- yar
- -dar
- AGR
- alcazar
- armoire
- au revoir
- bahar
- baignoire
- Bashar
- beaux-arts
- beer bar
- Berger Picard
- Bihar
- bête noire
Questions about guitar
- What does guitar mean?
- Guitar means a stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
- What is guitar in Hindi?
- Guitar in Hindi is गिटार (giṭār). See Guitar meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is guitar?
- Guitar can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce guitar?
- Guitar is pronounced /ɡɪˈtɑː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of guitar?
- The plural of guitar is guitars.
Words near guitar in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: guitar (page history and authors); guitar (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); guitar (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-uk-guitar.ogg, en-us-guitar.ogg.
Cite this entry: “guitar.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/guitar. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.