| 单词 | cithern |
| 释义 | cithern (once / 110461 pages) n WORD FAMILY cithern: citherns USAGE EXAMPLESA herald gave a shapely cithern harp to Phemios, whom they compelled to sing—and what a storm he plucked upon the strings for prelude! Homer, The Odyssey(1961) But, hark! there is a sound of a cithern, and some one singing. James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford), Agincourt—The Works of G. P. R. Jam...(2012) It was some miners singing various pretty songs, and accompanying their clear and shrill voices with a cithern and triangle. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship an...(2011) n a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings Syn|Hyper cither, citole, cittern, gittern guitar a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking |
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