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How to pronounce “banjo”
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Pronunciation guide for banjo
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of banjo with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- West Africa's Musical Impacts
But America's oldest musical instrument is called the banjo.
- Definition summary
- A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
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How to pronounce banjo
West Africa's Musical Impacts
But America's oldest musical instrument is called the banjo.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “banjo”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
- Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
- (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
- (UK, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
- (mining) A miner's round-nosed shovel.
- (Malaysia) An egg sandwich fried on a flattop and served in a bun as would a burger, ellipsis of egg banjo.
- (slang, vulgar) The frenulum of the penis.
- [Verb]
- To play a banjo.
- (transitive, slang, British) To beat, to knock down.
- (transitive, slang, British, military) To shell or attack (a target).
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