Usually means: Plucking strings instead of bowing.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. pizzicato: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pizzicato: Merriam-Webster
  3. pizzicato: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pizzicato: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pizzicato: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pizzicato: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pizzicato, pizzicato: Wordnik
  8. pizzicato: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pizzicato: Wiktionary
  10. pizzicato: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pizzicato: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pizzicato: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pizzicato, pizzicato: Dictionary.com
  14. pizzicato: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Pizzicato (album), Pizzicato (magazine), Pizzicato: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pizzicato: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pizzicato: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pizzicato: Rhymezone
  19. Pizzicato: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pizzicato: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pizzicato: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pizzicato: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. pizzicato: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pizzicato: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pizzicato: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pizzicato: A Word A Day

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See pizzicati as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (music) To be played by plucking the strings instead of using the bow.
noun:  (music) A note that is played pizzicato

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