stringed

[ stringd ]

adjective

1. fitted with strings (often used in combination):

   a five-stringed banjo.

2. produced or sounded by strings:

   stringed melodies.

stringed

/ strɪŋd /

adjective

1. (of musical instruments) having or provided with strings

Word History and Origins

Origin of stringed¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English strængede; string, -ed ³

Example Sentences

As she experiments between strumming up and down, the forceful strike gives the stringed instrument a more percussive feel.

From Los Angeles Times

His grandfather was one of the first percussionists in the area and his grandmother played the oud, a lute-like stringed musical instrument common in the Middle East and Africa.

From Seattle Times

You wouldn't think about recovering drug addicts making stringed instruments in Appalachia.

From Salon

Other works going under the hammer include the Landscape Sculpture, which looks like a stringed instrument, the brass sculpture Maquette For Winged Figure, and an oil and pencil work called Atlantic Form, Blue.

From BBC

To that end, he has loaned musicians nine stringed instruments that he purchased — seven violins, one viola and one cello — by Italian master luthiers dating from 1686-1835.

From Seattle Times