Gamba

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  • noun. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Short for viol da gamba. See viol.
  • noun. In anatomy, the metacarpus or metatarsus of some animals, as the ruminants and solidungulates.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A viola da gamba.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Shortened name for the string instrument viola da gamba.
  • noun. A rank of organ pipes, so-called for a supposed resemblance of the sound to that of a viola da gamba.
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  • noun. viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello
  • Word Usage
    "Clearly, Juilliard is in the early-music business to stay: The $1 million program, which gives full-tuition scholarships to the students, will expand to include lute and gamba players in 2013; Bruce Kovner, Juilliard's board chair and the program's primary funder, recently endowed it in perpetuity."
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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    viol  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    dicamba  
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