viola da gamba

1. 1.

   viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello

   Synonymsgambabass viol

   Broaderviol

Questions about viola da gamba

What does viola da gamba mean?

viola da gamba means "viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello".

What is another word for viola da gamba?

Close synonyms include gamba, bass viol. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is viola da gamba a common word?

viola da gamba 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.