cello

Noun

Meaning

A contraction for Violoncello.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

violoncello howdy piccolo horn octave viola bourdon gamba high bass string keyboard trumpet clarinet harp
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Antonyms

sayonara ciao bye-bye adios adieu farewell
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Hypernyms

string bowed stringed instrument

Phrases with the word

bass cello sopranino cello

Derivatives

cellos Celli

Anagrams

Colle

Examples

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece. Elliott Carter

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin. Fiona Shaw

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. Ritchie Blackmore

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder. Ritchie Blackmore

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. Roger Bannister

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello. Anthony Holden

Close letter words and terms

cellist cellless cellmate cello player cellobiase cellobiohydrolase