Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ancient instrument resembling the lyre.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ancient Greek musical instrument of the lyre class. See
lyre . - noun [capitalized] In zoology, a genus of prosobranchiate gastropodous mollusks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) An ancient stringed musical instrument resembling the harp.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The later form was the so-called cithara, the most common shape of which is that made familiar to all by the pedal piece of the square pianoforte.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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About the twelfth hour she perceived, in the depths of the sycamore trees, a blind old man with one hand resting on the shoulder of a child who walked before him, while with the other he carried a kind of cithara of black wood against his hip.
Salammbo 2003
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The Greeks believed that the cithara had come into Greece as a three-stringed lyre in the ninth century and that it had been developed in Greece itself.
Archive 2010-08-01 2010
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The Greeks believed that the cithara had come into Greece as a three-stringed lyre in the ninth century and that it had been developed in Greece itself.
The kithara 2010
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Down in the courtyard Adalana played the cithara and Tasatyala tapped on the fingerdrums.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Aghazal played the cithara and sang all the lovely longing thoughts Akantha dared not speak aloud, and Adalana, with her flute, was an impertinent skylark who served as a go-between.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Down in the courtyard Adalana played the cithara and Tasatyala tapped on the fingerdrums.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Second would dance, and Third would play the cithara and sing.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Aghazal played the cithara and sang all the lovely longing thoughts Akantha dared not speak aloud, and Adalana, with her flute, was an impertinent skylark who served as a go-between.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Second would dance, and Third would play the cithara and sing.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
reesetee commented on the word cithara
An ancient Greek stringed instrument, possibly a forerunner of the guitar. Also spelled kithara.
March 17, 2008