sound hole

1. 1.

   a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones

   Broaderhole

   Part ofsounding board

Questions about sound hole

What does sound hole mean?

sound hole means "a hole in a soundboard (as of a violin) designed to resonate with the tones".

Is sound hole a common word?

sound hole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.