A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.
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Banjo
//ˈbæn.d͡ʒoʊ//
Synonyms for "banjo" (34 found)
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Closest matches (7)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (17)
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1 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesat location
15 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
derived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas a
1 entrieshas context
6 entriesis a
10 entriesmade of
1 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriesused for
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
63 translations across 55 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Arabic
1 entries- بَانْجُو noun (a musical instrument)
Armenian
1 entries- բանջո noun (a musical instrument)
Basque
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Belarusian
1 entries- ба́нджа noun (a musical instrument)
Breton
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ба́нджо noun (a musical instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 班卓琴 noun (a musical instrument)
Czech
2 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
- bendžo noun (a musical instrument)
Danish
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Dutch
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Esperanto
1 entries- banĝo noun (a musical instrument)
Estonian
1 entries- bändžo noun (a musical instrument)
Faroese
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
French
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Georgian
1 entries- ბანჯო noun (a musical instrument)
German
1 entries- Banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Greek
1 entries- μπάντζο noun (a musical instrument)
Greenlandic
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Hebrew
1 entries- בַּנג׳וֹ noun (a musical instrument)
Hindi
1 entries- बैंजो noun (a musical instrument)
Hungarian
1 entries- bendzsó noun (a musical instrument)
Irish
1 entries- bainseo noun (a musical instrument)
Italian
2 entries- bangio noun (a musical instrument)
- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Japanese
1 entries- バンジョー noun (a musical instrument)
Korean
1 entries- 밴조 noun (a musical instrument)
Latvian
1 entries- bandžo noun (a musical instrument)
Lisu
2 entries- ꓛꓲꓺ ꓐꓶꓺ noun (a musical instrument)
- ꓞꓲꓺ ꓐꓶꓺ noun (a musical instrument)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bandža noun (a musical instrument)
Macedonian
1 entries- бенџо noun (a musical instrument)
Malay
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Mongolian
1 entries- банжо noun (a musical instrument)
Māori
2 entries- pakakū noun (a musical instrument)
- pātura noun (a musical instrument)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Persian
1 entries- بانجو noun (a musical instrument)
Polish
2 entries- bandżo noun (a musical instrument)
- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Russian
1 entries- ба́нджо noun (a musical instrument)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- bendžo noun (a musical instrument)
- бенџо noun (a musical instrument)
Slovak
1 entries- bendžo noun (a musical instrument)
Slovene
1 entries- bendžo noun (a musical instrument)
Spanish
2 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
- banyo noun (a musical instrument)
Swahili
2 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
- zeze la kizungu noun (a musical instrument)
Swedish
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Thai
1 entries- แบนโจ noun (a musical instrument)
Turkish
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ба́нджо noun (a musical instrument)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đàn banjô noun (a musical instrument)
Volapük
1 entries- bänyun noun (a musical instrument)
Welsh
1 entries- banjô noun (a musical instrument)
West-Frisian
1 entries- banjo noun (a musical instrument)
Yiddish
1 entries- באַנדזשאָ noun (a musical instrument)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
To become a professional banjo player, you need to spend thousands of hours practicing.
Source: tatoeba (909509)
If you want to sound like a native speaker, you must be willing to practice saying the same sentence over and over in the same way that banjo players practice the same phrase over and over until they can play it correctly and at the desired tempo.
Source: tatoeba (953962)
Tom continued to play his banjo even after everybody asked him to stop.
Source: tatoeba (1095222)
Showing 4 of 19 available sentences.
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