a fantastic little instrument

a small instrument with four strings

Hawaiian term for a musical Hawaiian string instrument.

The ukulele (ukulele in Hawaiian and standard Hawaiian English; pronounced , or the Anglicised ), or uke, is a fretted string instrument which is, in its construction, essentially a smaller, four-stringed version of the guitar. In the early 20th century, the instrument's name was often rendered as ukelele, a spelling still used in Great Britain.