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say it: ZITH-ur
zither is a noun meaning "a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers". It is pronounced /ˈzɪðɚ/ — ZITH-ur. It carries one recorded sense.
a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for zither come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.