n.
A musical instrument having a flat-backed rounded body that narrows in the middle, a long fretted neck, and usually six strings, played by strumming or plucking.
[French guitare, from Spanish guitarra, from Greek kitharā, cithara.]
guitarist gui·tar'ist n.
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