Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun string_bass
1 sense of string bass
Sense 1
bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, double bass, contrabass, string bass -- (largest and lowest member of the violin family)
=> bowed stringed instrument, string -- (stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well")
=> bass -- (the member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments)