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# lute

«lute» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old stringed musical instrument with a pear-shaped…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a lute, lutes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A lute is an old stringed musical instrument with a pear-shaped body and a bent-back neck, played by plucking the strings with the fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lute/#m1)

2) (rare) Lute is a sticky paste used to seal joints. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lute/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In music and history lessons the lute was very popular in Europe in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; minstrels and courtiers played it. It came from the Arabic «oud». In stories a bard with a lute sings at the castle. Phrases: «play the lute», «lute music».

### examples

- The minstrel played his lute at the banquet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lute/#x1)
- A lute has a round back like half a pear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lute/#x2)
- Queen Elizabeth I could play the lute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lute/#x3)
- We heard lute music on the museum tour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lute/#x4)
- The lute came to Europe from the Arabic oud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lute/#x5)
- The bard tuned his lute before the song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lute/#x6)
- The Prince sat down and strummed away on the lute [gusli]. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lute/#x7)

### note

Countable. Homophone: «loot» (stolen goods) sounds the same in most accents. A person who plays it is a «lutenist» or «lutanist»; a person who makes stringed instruments is a «luthier».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lute» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lute/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.