Definitions
A stringed instrument with strings stretched across a flat soundboard.
Word origin
Borrowed from German Zither, from Old High German zithara, from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek κιθάρα (kithára, “a kind of harp”). Doublet of cithara, cither, and guitar.
Used in a sentence
“[…] the fluting began again. Not alone this time, but, to Rosalie’s infinite surprise, accompanied on a zither. […] At this moment the fluting and zithering began again.”
“We wandered and fiddled and zithered and tambourined through France till the chills and rains of autumn rendered our vagabondage less merry.”
“c. 1890, May Ostlere, Dead! London: Trischler, Chapter 3, p. 76, Now [the wind] swithered through the badly-fixed windows, making zithering sounds as of an army of cold and frozen-out mosquitoes […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Tabletop strings”6 letters
02“Flat stringed instrument”6 letters
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