second violin

English

Noun

second violin (plural second violins)

  1. The second violin part in an orchestral score, generally a harmony to the first violin's melody and generally less technically demanding; the violin that supplies this part, or (metonymic) the violinist who plays it.
    Hypernyms: violin; violinist (when the metonymic sense applies)
    Holonyms: string section < orchestra
    Comeronym: first violin
    Coordinate term: first violin
    Near-synonym: second fiddle (sometimes synonymous)
    She was playing second violin that season.
    Did you notice the unusual timbre of that second violin?
    She was second violin that season.

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