violín

n. stringed musical instrument which has four strings and is played with a bow while held under the chin

For the Anne Rice novel, see Violin (novel) The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello. (The inclusion of the double bass in the family is disputed.)A violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, no matter what kind of music is played on it. The word "violin" comes to us through the Romance languages from the Middle Latin word vitula, meaning "stringed instrument"; this word may also be the source of the Germanic "fiddle".
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Noun
1. bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
(synonym) fiddle
(hypernym) bowed stringed instrument, string
(hyponym) Amati
(part-meronym) chin rest

n. violin, fiddle

(n.)
A small instrument with four strings, played with a bow; a fiddle.