A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.

(inexact, sometimes proscribed) Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas, and cellos and sometimes further including the double bass.

(music, metonymically) The position of a violinist in an orchestra or group.

(transitive, intransitive) To play on, or as if on, a violin.