Gittern

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A guitar of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A relatively small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, a predecessor of the guitar, that originated around the 13th century and came to Europe via Moorish Spain.
  • v. To play on the gittern.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An instrument like a guitar.
  • verb-intransitive. To play on gittern.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An old instrument of the guitar kind strung with wire; a cithern.
  • To play upon a gittern.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    guitar