🔄 Synonyms of "Plectrum"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| plectronnoun | (music) Alternative form of plectrum. [(music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc.] |
| picknoun | A tool used for digging; a pickaxe. |
| plectrenoun | (obsolete, music) Synonym of plectrum. |
| guitar picknoun | (music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin, etc. |
| quillnoun | A pen made from a feather. |
| fescuenoun | A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca. |
| pegboxnoun | (music, lutherie) The part of a violin or similar stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs. |
| pleytnoun | (nautical, archaic) A riverboat. |
| thumbpicknoun | (music) A type of plectrum that clips on to, or wraps around the end of the thumb. |
| plicanoun | A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue. |
| plexinoun | (informal) A Plexiglas guitar. |
| fingerpicknoun | A type of plectrum that clips on to, or wraps around the end of the fingers and thumb. |
| philomelnoun | (poetic) The nightingale. |
| plumeletnoun | A small plume. |
| zithernoun | (music) A musical instrument consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings placed on a horizontal surface, played with a plectrum or fingertips. |
| tiplenoun | (music) Any of several kinds of small, plucked stringed-instrument of the guitar family, used in the traditional musics of Spain and various Latin American nations. |
| string platenoun | (music) A metal plate bearing the spring-block of a pianoforte. |
| lutenoun | A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. |
| strillersnoun | (Polari) A musician. |
| plucknoun | (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. |
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