Definitions for banjo

banjo ban·jo

Spelling: [ban-joh]
IPA: /ˈbæn dʒoʊ/

Banjo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in banjo (abjno).

Definitions for banjo

noun

  1. a musical instrument of the guitar family, having a circular body covered in front with tightly stretched parchment and played with the fingers or a plectrum.

Origin of banjo

1730-40; compare Jamaican English banja, bonjour, bangil, Brazilian Portuguese banza; probably of African orig.; compare Kimbundu mbanza a plucked string instrument

Examples for banjo

He just missed running into banjo on the Hog's Back by the skin of the teeth.

On a low couch piled with cushions lay Helen's mandolin and a banjo.

In a tradition that goes back to the days of the minstrel show, the banjo player doubled as a comedian.

Down the middle of the guitar there is a walled enclosure of the shape of a banjo.

Before Earl Scruggs, banjo players were not front men, but they were funny.

When he was 11, his father built him a banjo, at first fashioning the head out of groundhog hide.

Well someone gave that kid a banjo and a Wi-Fi connection and told him to go to town.

That evening old Barnaby brought his banjo around to the veranda.

Come up and bring that boy with his banjo, and we'll have a lot of fun.

In her down time, she plays the banjo in an all-girl band, Loose Gravel.

Word Value for banjo
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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