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viola
/vaɪˈoʊlə/
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What does viola mean?
noun
- Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Viola, including the violets and pansies.
- A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.
- A person who plays the viola.
More meanings (23)
noun
- An organ stop having a similar tone.
- A 10-string steel-string acoustic guitar, used in Brazilian folk music.
- A berimbau viola, the smallest member of the berimbau used in capoeira music.
interjection
- (humorous) Misconstruction of voila.
proper noun
- A female given name from Latin.
- A comune in Cuneo province, Piedmont, Italy.
- A town in Fulton County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Shasta County, California.
- A town in Kent County, Delaware.
- An unincorporated community in Heard County, Georgia.
- An unincorporated community in Latah County, Idaho.
- A village in Greene Township, Mercer County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Brown Township, Linn County, Iowa.
- A minor city and township in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Graves County, Kentucky.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Olmsted County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Barry County and Stone County, Missouri.
- A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York.
- A town in Warren County, Tennessee.
- An unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
- A village in Richland County and Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- Other townships in Illinois and Iowa, listed under Viola Township.
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IPA pronunciation
/vaɪˈoʊlə/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Other dictionary pronunciations
/vɪˈoʊlə//ˈvaɪ.ələ//viˈoʊ.lə/
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See this word in context.
Two herbaceous plants, the Scrophularia glabrata and the Viola cheiranthifolia, advance even to the Malpays.
Were you a woman, as the rest goes even, I should my tears let fall upon your cheek, And say, ‘Thrice welcome, drowned Viola.’
More book examples (3)
The young folks are very musical, the principal instruments in use being the flute, violin, Spanish guitar, and a small four-stringed viola, called cavaquinho.
In any case, she can do a great deal better than Viola B. who ran away from New York and got caught, and was so much talked about in the newspapers.
I find from experiments that humble-bees are almost indispensable to the fertilisation of the heartsease (Viola tricolor), for other bees do not visit this flower.