"samisen" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "samisens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "samisen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "samisen"
      },
      "expansion": "samisen (plural samisens or samisen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "shamisen"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Three",
          "orig": "en:Three",
          "parents": [
            "Numbers",
            "All topics",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, John Fowles, Mantissa:",
          "text": "He sees her chastened and cast-down eyes as she kneels and tinkles away on her samisen",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of shamisen"
      ],
      "id": "en-samisen-en-noun-XVZQyWNx",
      "links": [
        [
          "shamisen",
          "shamisen#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsæmɪsɛn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "samisen"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "samisens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "samisen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "samisen"
      },
      "expansion": "samisen (plural samisens or samisen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "shamisen"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English indeclinable nouns",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Three"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, John Fowles, Mantissa:",
          "text": "He sees her chastened and cast-down eyes as she kneels and tinkles away on her samisen",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of shamisen"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shamisen",
          "shamisen#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsæmɪsɛn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "samisen"
}