| Meaning | A stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking. |
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| Parts | fingerboard | A narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers |
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| Narrower | Hawaiian guitar, steel guitar | guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect |
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| acoustic guitar | sound is not amplified by electrical means |
| bass guitar | The guitar with six strings that has the lowest pitch |
| cittern, cithern, cither, citole, gittern | A 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings |
| electric guitar | A guitar whose sound is amplified by electrical means |
| uke, ukulele | A small guitar having four strings |
| Broader | stringed instrument | A musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound |
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| Spanish | guitarra, jarana, sonanta |
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| Catalan | guitarra |
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| Nouns | guitarist | a musician who plays the guitar |
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