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Stradivarian

Stradivarian adjective: of or relating to the Stradivari family who built stringed instruments in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Adjective

Stradivarian (comparative more Stradivarian, superlative most Stradivarian)

  1. Of or relating to the Stradivari family who built stringed instruments in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  2. Like a Stradivarius instrument.
    • For not only are computers as dumb as a billion marbles, they’re also positively Stradivarian in their delicacy.2015, Paul Ford, "What Is Code?", section 2.3, in Bloomberg Businessweek, June 11, 2015

Forms of Stradivarian

comparativemore Stradivarian
superlativemost Stradivarian

Origin of Stradivarian

From Italian Stradivari + -an.

Questions about Stradivarian

What does Stradivarian mean?
Stradivarian means of or relating to the Stradivari family who built stringed instruments in the 17th and 18th centuries.
What part of speech is Stradivarian?
Stradivarian is an adjective.

Words near Stradivarian in the dictionary

  1. Straders
  2. Stradford
  3. Stradfords
  4. stradiot
  5. stradiots
  6. Stradivarian
  7. Stradivarii
  8. Stradivarius
  9. Stradivariuses
  10. Stradley
  11. Stradleys

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