Definitions for zithers

zithers zith·er

Spelling: [zith-er, zith -]
IPA: /ˈzɪθ ər, ˈzɪð-/

Zithers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 160 anagrams from letters in zithers (ehirstz).

Definitions for zithers

noun

  1. a musical instrument, consisting of a flat sounding box with numerous strings stretched over it, that is placed on a horizontal surface and played with a plectrum and the fingertips.

Origin of zithers

1840-50; German Latin cithara Greek kithárá; see kithara

Examples for zithers

It sounds like a zither players sweetest songs, said the rider.

There also in the evening Bavarian minstrels jodel, and play the zither.

It was exceedingly faint, like the distant thrumming of a zither.

On an unlucky day one of the nieces took it into her head to study the zither.

And so full was he of the idea of how to set about cleaving the log that he forgot even his zither.

My grandfather plays the violin and I the zither—we also go to fairs.

Then she called to him: 'Why are you so cast down this evening, that you do not play on your zither?'

Their principal instruments are the violin, the violoncello, and a sort of zither.

I had once passed six months in Bavaria, where I had learned to love the zither.

Aspasia is the scale of the zither, without whom our strings would not sound.

Word Value for zithers
Scrable

18

Words with friends

17

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