"acoustic guitar" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: acoustic guitars [plural]
Etymology: Retronym for guitar, coined after the invention of the electric guitar to refer to the older type of guitar and avoid confusion with the electric guitar. Etymology templates: {{retronym|en|guitar}} Retronym for guitar Head templates: {{en-noun}} acoustic guitar (plural acoustic guitars)
  1. A hollow-body guitar of the older variety, in contradistinction to an electric guitar. Wikipedia link: acoustic guitar Categories (topical): String instruments Related terms: acoustic guitarist Translations (hollow-body guitar): غِيتَار صَوْتِيّ (gitār ṣawtiyy) [feminine] (Arabic), ակուստիկ կիթառ (akustik kitʻaṙ) (Armenian), akustik gitara (Azerbaijani), guitarra acústica [feminine] (Catalan), 原聲吉他 (Chinese Mandarin), 原声吉他 (yuánshēng jítā) (Chinese Mandarin), 木吉他 (mùjítā) (Chinese Mandarin), akustická kytara [feminine] (Czech), akustisk guitar (Danish), akoestische gitaar [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), akustika gitaro (Esperanto), akustinen kitara (Finnish), guitare acoustique [feminine] (French), guitarra acústica [feminine] (Galician), akustische Gitarre [feminine] (German), Akustikgitarre [feminine] (German), ακουστική κιθάρα (akoustikí kithára) [feminine] (Greek), akusztikus gitár (Hungarian), giotár fuaimiúil [masculine] (Irish), giotár acústach [masculine] (Irish), アコースティックギター (akōsuthikkugitā) (Japanese), アコギ (akogi) (Japanese), 어쿠스틱 기타 (eokuseutik gita) (Korean), акустична гитара (akustična gitara) [feminine] (Macedonian), kitā orooro (Maori), akustyk [colloquial, masculine] (Polish), gitara akustyczna [feminine] (Polish), guitarra acústica [feminine] (Portuguese), violão [Brazil, masculine] (Portuguese), chitară acustică [feminine] (Romanian), акусти́ческая гита́ра (akustíčeskaja gitára) [feminine] (Russian), akustična gitara [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), guitarra acústica [feminine] (Spanish), akustisk gitarr [common-gender] (Swedish), akustik gitar (Turkish), акустична гітара (akustyčna hitara) [feminine] (Ukrainian), gitâr acwstig (Welsh), gitâr clybodig (Welsh), אַקוסטישע גיטאַר (akustishe gitar) (Yiddish)

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      "roman": "akustishe gitar",
      "sense": "hollow-body guitar",
      "word": "אַקוסטישע גיטאַר"
    }
  ],
  "word": "acoustic guitar"
}

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