Definitions for viols

viols vi·ol

Spelling: [vahy-uh l]
IPA: /ˈvaɪ əl/

Viols is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in viols (ilosv).

Definitions for viols

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 viols

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 viols

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for viols
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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