Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
banjo
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word banjolike.
Examples
-
He forced them to kneel, for five or six hours at a stretch, and play an ancient, banjolike instrument with a body of dog skin, neck of hardwood and strings of silk.
Unlikely Stars 2007
-
He played a banjolike thing and could just about make a dead man dance, though his instrument was made of but a gourd and had just one string.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
-
He played a banjolike thing and could just about make a dead man dance, though his instrument was made of but a gourd and had just one string.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
-
He was adept on lutes - oud and saz, a long-necked lute with a banjolike bite - and flutes: the Middle Eastern cane flute called a nay, along with a European silver flute and an alto flute.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
-
Platy in Okinawa, which incorporates the banjolike sanshin into their songs, and singers like Nanjaman, whose social concerns Sterling admires - if not the nationalism and homophobia that he inherited from some Jamaican musicians.
-
I've heard five songs from a forthcoming album by her acoustic trio -- she plays guitar and gambusim (a banjolike Swahili instrument) and she's supported by upright bass, mbira, and sparse hand percussion.
Chicago Reader 2010
-
Mr. Qasimov has also expanded the typical mugham ensemble; along with a tar, which is a banjolike lute, and a kamancha, a spike fiddle, Mr. Qasimov's group included a double-reed instrument, the balaban (sometimes alternated with clarinet), and the naghara, a hand drum.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2010
-
I've heard five songs from a forthcoming album by her acoustic trio -- she plays guitar and gambusim (a banjolike Swahili instrument) and she's supported by upright bass, mbira, and sparse hand percussion.
Chicago Reader 2010
-
Platy in Okinawa, which incorporates the banjolike sanshin into their songs, and singers like Nanjaman, whose social concerns Sterling admires - if not the nationalism and homophobia that he inherited from some Jamaican musicians.
News On Japan 2010
-
On spring and summer evenings, when the frogs are most active, Nichols likes to sit outside and listen to their serenades, including the deep, banjolike "gulp" of the northern green frog heard during a visit to his pond in mid-June, as spring moves into summer.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.