a four-stringed instrument, slightly larger and deeper in tone than a violin
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a little bigger than a violin and when you play it the music is lower than a violin
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a little lower in sound it produces, because it has one extra lower string
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a musical instrument that has strings like a violin
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            a stringed instrument, larger than a violin and smaller than a cello
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            A stringed instrument in the violin family, larger than the violin but smaller than the cello, played by pulling a bow across the strings.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            In the violin family, the alto instrument, played under the chin.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Bowed-string instrument of middle range; the second-highest member of the violin family.
                                                            
                                                     
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                        
                                                
                        
                        
                            Besides the instrument of the violin family, viola is also the name for a 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music.