Usually means: Stringed instrument with pear-shaped body.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word lute:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lute: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lute, lute-: Merriam-Webster
  3. lute, lute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lute, lute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lute: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lute: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lute, lute: Wordnik
  8. lute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lute: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Lute, lute: Wiktionary
  11. lute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. lute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. lute: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. lute: Dictionary.com
  15. lute: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Lute (disambiguation), Lute (material), Lute (rapper), Lute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lute: Rhymezone
  20. Lute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. lute, lute-: MyWord.info
  23. lute: FreeDictionary.org
  24. lute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. lute: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lute: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  4. Lute: Classical Music Guide
  5. Lute: Early Patches (musical instruments)
  6. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lute: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. lute, lute-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LUTE: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lute, lute, Lute: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lute: The Folk File

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lute: Pottery Studio

(Note: See luted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
verb:  To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
noun:  Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight.
noun:  A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
noun:  (brickmaking) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth.
verb:  To fix or fasten something with lute.
noun:  A surname.

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