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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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 [syn: samisen, shamisen]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Japanese Date: 1864 a 3-stringed Japanese musical instrument resembling a banjo

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a long three-stringed Japanese guitar, played with a plectrum. Etymology: Jap. f. Chin. san-hsien f. san three + hsien string

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Samisen Sam"i*sen, n. [Jap.] (Mus.) A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.

Moby Thesaurus

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