Definitions for biwa

biwa Bi·wa

Spelling: [bee-wah]
IPA: /ˈbi wɑ/

Biwa is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in biwa (abiw).

Definitions for biwa

noun

  1. Lake, the largest lake in Japan, on Honshu, near Kyoto. 260 sq. mi. (673 sq. km).

Examples for biwa

A fine native fruit, when well grown, is the Biwa or loquat.

For many hours he had played, drawing strange music from his Biwa.

A wandering ballad-singer passed that way, with his Biwa slung across his back.

The road between Kioto and Biwa we travelled the following morning in jinrikishas.

He sought also the free air and the sound of falling water, yet dearer to him than the plucked strings of sho and Biwa.

He heard the sound of a Biwa (mandolin) proceeding from a veranda.

On those days I one day went to the city and bought a little doll of blind priest with a Biwa.

She played the samisen, the kotto, the Biwa, and the small hand-drum.

The "Biwa," more than any other instrument, is played by blind performers, who accompany it with ballads.

One hundred and thirty miles to the west as the crane wings her flight, in the heart of Omi, is Biwa Ko, the lake of the lute.

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