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samisen
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun samisen has 1 sense
- samisen(n = noun.artifact) shamisen - a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum; Array is a kind of stringed instrument
CIDE DICTIONARY
samisen, n. [Jap.].
A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
samisen, n. a long three-stringed Japanese guitar, played with a plectrum.
Etymology
Jap. f. Chin. san-hsien f. san three + hsien string
THESAURUS
samisen
Dobro guitar, F-hole guitar, Spanish guitar, archlute, balalaika, banjo, banjo-uke, banjo-ukulele, banjo-zither, banjorine, banjuke, bass guitar, centerhole guitar, concert guitar, electric guitar, guitar, lute, mando-bass, mando-cello, mandola, mandolin, mandolute, mandore, oud, pandora, pandura, sitar, steel guitar, tamboura, theorbo, troubadour fiddle, uke, ukulele
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