0 a wooden musical instrument with four strings that is held against the neck and played by moving a bow across the strings
1 a small, wooden musical instrument with four strings that a player holds against his or her neck and plays with a bow (= stick with hairs attached to it), or this type of instrument generally
She plays the violin with great expression .
I went to a violin recital today.
At age two she read music for the piano, and at age three she played the violin.
However, both forms co-occur in the same session with variants showing the expected reduplicative onset : violin-bin and goldfish-poldfish.
