Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun samisen

1 sense of samisen

Sense 1
samisen, shamisen -- (a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum)
       => stringed instrument -- (a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound)