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say it: MAN-duh-lin
mandolin is a noun meaning "a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum". It carries one recorded sense.
a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mandolin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.