gittern

1. 1.

   a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings

   Synonymscitterncitherncithercitole

   Broaderguitar

Other forms of gittern

plural

gitterns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gittern

What does gittern mean?

gittern means "a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings".

How many syllables are in gittern?

gittern has 2 syllables: git-tern. The stress falls on "git".

What is another word for gittern?

Close synonyms include cittern, cithern, cither, citole. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gittern a common word?

gittern is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.