CHORDOPHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chordophone mean? 

• CHORDOPHONE (noun)
  The noun CHORDOPHONE has 1 sense:

1. a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers

  Familiarity information: CHORDOPHONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHORDOPHONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chordophone" is a kind of...):

stringed instrument (a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chordophone"):

balalaika (a stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three strings)

harp (a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers)

lute (chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard)

mandolin (a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum)