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Date: 1600-1700
Language: French
Origin: guitare, from Spanish guitarra, from Arabic qitar, from Greek kithara type of stringed instrument

guitar

 noun
     
guitar
Related topics: Music
gui‧tar W3 [countable]
APM a musical instrument with six strings that you play by pulling the strings with your fingers or with a plectrum (=small piece of plastic, metal etc)
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