jew's harp

Questions about jew's harp

What is another word for jew's harp?

It depends which jew's harp you mean. In the sense “a small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity”, the synonyms are jews' harp, mouth bow. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of jew's harp?

WordNet records no antonym for jew's harp. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for jew's harp come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of jew's harp

• Full entry for jew's harpAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for jew's harpWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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