acoustic guitar

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acoustic guitar

Etymology

Retronym for guitar, coined after the invention of the electric guitar to refer to the older type of guitar and avoid confusion with the electric guitar.

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

acoustic guitar (plural acoustic guitars)

A hollow-body guitar of the older variety, in contradistinction to an electric guitar.
He was playing the acoustic guitar while his girlfriend was on the drums.

Related terms

acoustic guitarist

Translations

hollow-body guitar

Arabic: غِيتَار صَوْتِيّ f (gitār ṣawtiyy)
Armenian: ակուստիկ կիթառ (akustik kitʻaṙ)
Azerbaijani: akustik gitara
Catalan: guitarra acústica (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 原聲吉他 / 原声吉他 (yuánshēng jítā), 木吉他 (mùjítā)
Czech: akustická kytara f
Danish: akustisk guitar
Dutch: akoestische gitaar m or f
Esperanto: akustika gitaro
Finnish: akustinen kitara
French: guitare acoustique (fr) f
Galician: guitarra acústica f
German: akustische Gitarre (de) f, Akustikgitarre f
Greek: ακουστική κιθάρα (el) f (akoustikí kithára)
Hungarian: akusztikus gitár (hu)
Indonesian: gitar akustik (id)
Irish: giotár fuaimiúil m, giotár acústach m
Japanese: アコースティックギター (ja) (akōsuthikkugitā), アコギ (akogi)
Korean: 어쿠스틱 기타 (eokuseutik gita)
Macedonian: акустична гитара f (akustična gitara)
Malay: gitar akustik
Māori: kitā orooro
Polish: gitara akustyczna f, akustyk (pl) m
Portuguese: guitarra acústica f, violão (pt) m (Brazil)
Romanian: chitară acustică f
Russian: акусти́ческая гита́ра f (akustíčeskaja gitára)
Serbo-Croatian:
Latin: akustična gitara f
Spanish: guitarra acústica f
Swedish: akustisk gitarr c
Turkish: akustik gitar (tr)
Ukrainian: акустична гітара f (akustyčna hitara)
Welsh: gitâr acwstig, gitâr clybodig
Yiddish: אַקוסטישע גיטאַר (akustishe gitar)