Definitions for viol

viol vi·ol

Spelling: [vahy-uh l]
IPA: /ˈvaɪ əl/

Viol is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in viol (ilov).

Definitions for viol

noun

  1. a bowed musical instrument, differing from the violin in having deeper ribs, sloping shoulders, a greater number of strings, usually six, and frets: common in the 16th and 17th centuries in various sizes from the treble viol to the bass viol.

Origin of viol

1475-85; Middle French viole (akin to Old French viel(l)e > earlier English viele) Old Provençal viola, derivative of violar to play the viola1 (perhap

Examples for viol

Significant then, that he worshipped "the viol, the violet, and the vine" of Poe.

He scorned the new invention but warmly upheld the lute and viol.

In the evening he practised his viol, and studied the theory of music.

The second, instructions for the viol and also for the treble violin.

In Greece and Albania, however, the viol would seem not to be used.

The viol da Gamba is the only instrument, and Abel the prince of musicians!

The artist is seen in the foreground playing a viol: Titian a bass viol.

He says, "There is no hint where the viol kind came first in use."

The viol was entirely out of use at the beginning of the last century.

Others, looking at the ceiling, sigh to the viol some German ballade.

Word Value for viol
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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