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shruti box

shruti box noun: a musical instrument resembling a harmonium, used to provide a droning accompaniment in Indian classical music.

shruti box: a musical instrument resembling a harmonium, used to provide a droning accompaniment in Indian...
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Noun

shruti box (plural shruti boxes)

  1. A musical instrument resembling a harmonium, used to provide a droning accompaniment in Indian classical music.
    • During the “Gayatri Mantra” her voice soared over the hypnotic drone that one hand coaxed from her shruti box, while the other hand energetically massaged the air.2006 December 2, Vivien Schweitzer, “Prayer, Texts and Chants, Along With Some Improv”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    surpeti

Synonyms of shruti box

Forms of shruti box

pluralshruti boxes
alternative formsruti box
alternative formshrutibox
alternative formsrutibox

Origin of shruti box

Compound of shruti + box.

Questions about shruti box

What does shruti box mean?
Shruti box means a musical instrument resembling a harmonium, used to provide a droning accompaniment in Indian classical music.
What part of speech is shruti box?
Shruti box is a noun.
What is the plural of shruti box?
The plural of shruti box is shruti boxes.

Words near shruti box in the dictionary

  1. shrunken down
  2. shrunken up
  3. shrunkenly
  4. shrunkenness
  5. shruti
  6. shruti box
  7. shruti boxes
  8. shrutis
  9. Shryock
  10. Shryocks
  11. SHS

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