gittern — अंग्रेज़ी शब्दकोश

संज्ञा

1. A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.

   समानार्थी शब्द

   quintern

   उदाहरण

   Now they can no more hear thy ghittern’s tune, / For venturing syllables that ill beseem / The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.

क्रिया

1. To play on the gittern.

   संबंधित शब्द

   cithercitternzittern

   उदाहरण

   अधिक उदाहरण (1)

   c. 1639-1640. John Milton, The Cambridge Manuscript; Excerpts from pages 35-41, as Reprinted in David Masson, editor & author, The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time; Volume II, London and New York.: MacMillan and Co, 1871, page 109. … [E]ach evening every one with mistress, or Ganymede, glitterning along the streets, or solacing on the banks of Jordan, or down the stream.

संज्ञा

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

   समानार्थी शब्द

   citterncitherncithercitole

   व्यापक अर्थ वाले शब्द

   guitar