| 1. stringed musical instrument. zitherzither , n. [g. zither. see: cittern.] (mus.) an instrument of music used in austria and germany. it has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it.note: [not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]zither a musical stringed instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box; played with a plectrum and with fingers [syn: cither, zithern] |
