Definitions for "Zither"
An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
a musical stringed instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers
an instrument in which the strings run parallel to the resonator, which extends the entire length of the strings