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cither

British  
/ ˈsɪθə, ˈsɪθən /

noun

  1. variants of cittern

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of cither

C17: from Latin cithara, from Greek kithara lyre

Example Sentences

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Musical Never has cither a jot or tittle of Jewish ritual been discarded without a struggle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Children are cither too young to get the point or old enough to know better.

From Time Magazine Archive

A twofold music in my breast I bear, A cither with diversely sounding strings, One for life's joy, a treble loud and clear, And one deep note that quivers as it sings.

From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

I will sing you something with my cither.

From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various

The dew! for its want an oak will wither— By the dull hoof into the dust is trod, And then who strikes the cither?

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert