Definitions for violas

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violas vi·o·la

Spelling: [vee-oh-luh]

IPA: /viˈoʊ lə/

Violas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in violas (ailosv).

Definitions for violas

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 violas

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

Examples for violas

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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