A viola is a musical instrument with four strings that is played with a bow. It is like a violin, but is slightly larger and can play lower notes. Stringed instrument, the tenor member of the violin family. In appearance it is almost identical to the violin but slightly larger; its strings are tuned a fifth lower. It is a member of many chamber music ensembles, and the modern orchestra uses 6 to 10 violas. Its tone is darker, warmer, and less powerful than the violin's, and it is rarely employed as a solo instrument. The viola d'amore is an 18th-century instrument with six or seven melody strings, under which are strung several sympathetic strings that resonate in concord with the sounded pitches
An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass
Bowed-string instrument of middle range; the second-highest member of the violin family
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{i} four-stringed instrument from the violin family that is larger than a violin but smaller than a cello and is held under the chin
a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola
(1724) a bowed string instrument of the violin family that is intermediate in size and compass between the violin and cello and is tuned a fifth below the violin
a stringed instrument somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone
any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies