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# ukulele

«ukulele» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small guitar-like instrument with four strings, first…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a ukulele, ukuleles); also spelled ukelele

### meaning for a pupil

A ukulele is a small guitar-like instrument with four strings, first made popular in Hawaii. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/ukulele/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons the ukulele is a favourite first instrument in schools because it is small, cheap and easy to learn chords on. Phrases: play the ukulele, strum a ukulele, ukulele chords.

### examples

- Our whole class is learning the ukulele. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/ukulele/#x1)
- She strummed a happy song on her ukulele. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/ukulele/#x2)
- A ukulele has four nylon strings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/ukulele/#x3)
- The ukulele came to Hawaii from a Portuguese instrument in the 1800s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/ukulele/#x4)
- Tune your ukulele before you play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/ukulele/#x5)
- I can play three chords on the ukulele. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/ukulele/#x6)

### note

Countable: a ukulele (with "a", because it starts with a "you" sound). Said you-ka-LAY-lee; in Hawaiian, oo-koo-LEH-leh. Informal short form: uke.

### In the corpora

- [Fast wobbles sound high and slow wobbles sound low, so a tiny ukulele squeaks and a huge double bass booms.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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