different between guitar vs retronym

English

Alternative forms

• guittar (obsolete)
• gittar (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic ?????????? (q???ra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kithára). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t??/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /???.t??/
• IPA^(key): /?i?t??/
• IPA^(key): /???t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

  Hyphenation: gui?tar

• Rhymes: -??

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).

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)

Hypernyms

• chordophone
• lute
• stringed instrument

Hyponyms

• acoustic guitar
• electric guitar

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

• 2000. The Acoustic Guitar Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Maintain an Acoustic Guitar. Larry Sandberg. Pg. 4.

Verb

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

1. (rare) To play the guitar.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

• Ugarit

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?itar/, [???it????]

Noun

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

1. guitar

Inflection

English

Etymology

From retro- +? -onym; coined by Frank Mankiewicz and popularized by William Safire.

Noun

retronym (plural retronyms)

1. (linguistics) A new word or phrase coined for an old object or concept whose original name has become used for something else or is no longer unique. [from 1980s]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• avant la lettre
• reduplicative
• Category:English retronyms

Further reading

• retronym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Danish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

retronym n (singular definite retronymet, plural indefinite retronymer)

1. (linguistics, rare) retronym

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

retro- +? -onym

Noun

retronym c

1. retronym

Declension

See also

• akustisk gitarr
• tjock-tv
• vedspis