ukulele

«ukulele» in Mova's school dictionary: a small guitar-like instrument with four strings, first… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a ukulele, ukuleles); also spelled ukelele

meaning for a pupil

A ukulele is a small guitar-like instrument with four strings, first made popular in Hawaii. tree →

sense in the lessons

In music lessons the ukulele is a favourite first instrument in schools because it is small, cheap and easy to learn chords on. Phrases: play the ukulele, strum a ukulele, ukulele chords.

examples

• Our whole class is learning the ukulele. tree →
• She strummed a happy song on her ukulele. tree →
• A ukulele has four nylon strings. tree →
• The ukulele came to Hawaii from a Portuguese instrument in the 1800s. tree →
• Tune your ukulele before you play. tree →
• I can play three chords on the ukulele. tree →

note

Countable: a ukulele (with "a", because it starts with a "you" sound). Said you-ka-LAY-lee; in Hawaiian, oo-koo-LEH-leh. Informal short form: uke.

In the corpora

• Fast wobbles sound high and slow wobbles sound low, so a tiny ukulele squeaks and a huge double bass booms.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ukulele» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.