Usually means: Traditional Japanese three-stringed instrument.
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  1. samisen: Merriam-Webster
  2. samisen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. samisen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. samisen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. samisen: Vocabulary.com
  6. samisen: Wordnik
  7. samisen: Wiktionary
  8. samisen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. samisen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. samisen: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. samisen: Dictionary.com
  12. samisen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Samisen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. samisen: Rhymezone
  15. samisen: FreeDictionary.org
  16. samisen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. samisen: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Alternative form of shamisen [(music) A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.]

Similar:
shamisen, biwa, sanshin, koto, gagaku, tambur, sanjo, shenai, rebec, onnagata, more...

Opposite:
unsamisen, non-samisen

Types:
shamisen, biwa, koto, taisho koto, more...

Adjectives:
stringed, japanese, several, battered, traditional, golden, single, like, old, plucked, necked
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Similar:
shamisen, biwa, sanshin, koto, gagaku, tambur, sanjo, shenai, rebec, onnagata, more...

Opposite:
unsamisen, non-samisen

Types:
shamisen, biwa, koto, taisho koto, more...

Adjectives:
stringed, japanese, several, battered, traditional, golden, single, like, old, plucked, necked



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