cither has definitions from the fields of music,medieval
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[ noun ] (music,medieval) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings

Related terms

guitar

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[ noun ] (music) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers

Synonyms

zithern zither

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