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Dobro¹

Where it comes from

Originally a trademark; a contraction of Dopyera brothers, the inventors.

noun Dobros

  1. A type of acoustic guitar with a metal resonator set into its body.

    Similar: Hawaiian guitar, resonator guitar, resophonic guitar

dobro²

  • /ˈdəʊbɹəʊ/

Where it comes from

From the trade name Dobro, used by the Gibson Guitar Corporation, from Dopyera or Dopjera, the name of the inventors + brothers, and also a pun on Slovak dobro (“good”).

noun dobros

  1. An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator. The longest and most incandescent track is “Twilight Kingdom,” which includes Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on dobro and David Grier on guitar.

    Similar: resonator guitar

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@misc{dobro_2026,
  title = {dobro},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dobro},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}