Definitions for Viola

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Viola vi·o·la

Spelling: [vee-oh-luh]

IPA: /viˈoʊ lə/

Viola is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in Viola (ailov).

Definitions for Viola

noun

1. a four-stringed musical instrument of the violin family, slightly larger than the violin; a tenor or alto violin.
2. a labial organ stop of eight-foot or four-foot pitch, giving tones of a penetrating stringlike quality.
3. any plant of the genus Viola, especially a cultivated variety. Compare pansy (def 1), violet (defs 1, 2).
4. a pansy, V. cornuta, cultivated as a garden plant.
5. a female given name.

Origin of Viola

1715-25; Italian viola Old Provençal viola; see viol

Examples for Viola

viola, the Garibaldino, with whom he has lived for some years, calls him the Incorruptible.

I've the power to nominate whom I like, and viola it shall be.

The Iron Lady actress bested frontrunner viola Davis, who seemed a shoo-in for her turn in The Help.

For a pair such as viola and Perov, who have co-created work for decades, there is also precedent for retroactive co-authorship.

This time she showed him his second grandchild, her little viola.

Few know that I also learned the viola, but gave it up after a year.

No one thought I could play the viola—until Mr K came into my life.

Not only the Duke, but both the heroines, viola and Olivia, love music.

But he promised to see old viola and the other girl that very night.

(viola, Twelfth Night, 3.4.304–305) What these plays all need, in production, is that sensitivity to the sea.