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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024lute1 /lut/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Music and Dancea musical instrument with strings, a long neck with frets, and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lute1 (lo̅o̅t),USA pronunciation n., v., lut•ed, lut•ing. n. - Music and Dancea stringed musical instrument having a long, fretted neck and a hollow, typically pear-shaped body with a vaulted back.
v.i. - Music and Danceto play a lute.
v.t. - Music and Danceto perform (music) on a lute:a musician skilled at luting Elizabethan ballads.
- to express (a feeling, mood, etc.) by means of a lute:The minstrel eloquently luted his melancholy.
- Arabic al ‘ūd literally, the wood
- Old Provencal laut
- Middle French, Old French
- Middle English 1325–75
- Buildingluting.
v.t. - Buildingto seal or cement with luting.
- Medieval Latin lutum, special use of Latin lutum mud, clay
- late Middle English 1375–1425
- Buildinga paving tool for spreading and smoothing concrete, consisting of a straightedge mounted transversely on a long handle.
v.t. - Buildingto spread and smooth (concrete in a pavement) with a lute.
- Dutch loet
- 1870–75, American.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: lute /luːt/ n - an ancient plucked stringed instrument, consisting of a long fingerboard with frets and gut strings, and a body shaped like a sliced pear
Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French lut, via Old Provençal from Arabic al `ūd, literally: the wood lute /luːt/ n
Also called: luting a mixture of cement and clay used to seal the joints between pipes, etc- a thin layer of cement used to fix a crown or inlay in place on a tooth
vb - (transitive) to seal (a joint or surface) with lute
Etymology: 14th Century: via Old French ultimately from Latin lutum clay |