FINGERBOARD
Dictionary entry overview: What does fingerboard mean?
• FINGERBOARD (noun)
The noun FINGERBOARD has 3 senses:
1. a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger
2. a bank of keys on a musical instrument
3. a narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers
Familiarity information: FINGERBOARD used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FINGERBOARD (noun)
Meaning:
A guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
fingerboard; fingerpost
Hypernyms ("fingerboard" is a kind of...):
guidepost; signpost (a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way)
Meaning:
A bank of keys on a musical instrument
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
clavier; piano keyboard; fingerboard
Hypernyms ("fingerboard" is a kind of...):
keyboard (device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like)
Holonyms ("fingerboard" is a part of...):
accordion; piano accordion; squeeze box (a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player)
organ; pipe organ (wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard)
forte-piano; piano; pianoforte (a stringed instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds)
Meaning:
A narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fingerboard" is a kind of...):
strip (thin piece of wood or metal)
Holonyms ("fingerboard" is a part of...):
banjo (a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body)
bowed stringed instrument; string (stringed instruments that are played with a bow)
guitar (a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking)
lute (chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard)
mandolin (a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum)
