Chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. Wikipedia

Plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back. Wikipedia Disambiguation

Musical instrument, from French usage Wikipedia Disambiguation

A plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back. OmegaWiki

A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. Wiktionary

Stringed instrument. Wiktionary (translation)