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.