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# zither

«zither» in Mova's school dictionary: **a musical instrument with many strings stretched over a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a zither, zithers)

### meaning for a pupil

A zither is a musical instrument with many strings stretched over a flat wooden box; you lay it on a table or your lap and pluck the strings with your fingers or a pick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zither/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In music lessons on string instruments around the world, the zither is found in Austria and Germany (folk music); related zithers include the Chinese guzheng, the Japanese koto and the Finnish kantele. It belongs to the string family because sound comes from vibrating strings. Phrases: «play the zither», «zither music».

### examples

- The man in the Austrian café played the zither. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zither/#x1)
- A zither has dozens of strings over a flat box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zither/#x2)
- The Chinese guzheng is a kind of zither. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zither/#x3)
- You pluck the zither strings with your fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zither/#x4)
- The film «The Third Man» has famous zither music. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zither/#x5)
- We heard a zither at the folk festival. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zither/#x6)

### note

Countable. Say «ZITH-er» with the «th» as in «this». Science: shorter, tighter or thinner strings give higher notes. It is not a guitar: it has no neck.

### In the corpora

- [The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «zither» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Z/zither/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.