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Definition: CITTERN |
CITTERNNoun1. An instrument shaped like a lute, but strung with wire and played with a quill or plectrum. |
Date "CITTERN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Cittern \Cit"tern\, noun. [Latin expression cithara. Compare to Cithara, Gittern.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: CITTERN |
| English words defined with "CITTERN": Cithern, Cittern-head ♦ Orpharion ♦ Strumstrum ♦ Zittern. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CITTERN": KIT. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CITTERN": Cithara, Citole ♦ guitar ♦ Strumstrum ♦ Zither. (references) |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CITTERN": Cittern-head. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cittern | 13 |
cittern maker | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CITTERN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | القيثار آلة موسيقية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид лютня. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cithare (cither). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lant (cither, lute, lyre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itterncay cistro. (various references) кифара (cither). (various references) citra (cither, zither). (various references) lirio (cither, Iris, Lily). (various references) cittra (cither, gittern, zither). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CITTERN": citterns. (additional references) | |
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"CITTERN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chitterne, Citta, citterne, cottern. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CITTERN" (pronounced 'Cit"tern'): Altern, Cistern, Flittern, martern, Pastern, Pottern, Quartern, Vultern, Yestern, Zittern. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: cretin, retint, tinter. | |
-2 letters: citer, inert, inter, nicer, niter, nitre, recti, tinct, titer, titre, trice, trine, trite. | |
-3 letters: cent, cine, cire, cite, etic, nett, nice, nite, rein, rent, rice, rite, tent, tern, tier, tine, tint, tire, tret. | |
-4 letters: ern, ice, ire, net, nit, rec, rei, ret, rin, ten, tet, tic, tie, tin, tit. | |
-5 letters: en. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: centrist, citterns, contrite, interact, intercut, reticent, tincture. | |
+2 letters: carnotite, centrists, certainty, cornetist, cowritten, crepitant, curetting, interacts, intercept, intercity, intercuts, interdict, interject, intersect, intricate, introject, recutting, tinctured, tinctures, tricotine. | |
+3 letters: anthracite, antierotic, cantatrice, carnotites, centiliter, centimeter, centralist, centrality, centricity, certainest, chattering, chittering, clattering, cluttering, concretist, contortive, contribute, contritely, cornetists, cornettist, curvetting, detracting, detraction, distincter, eructating, eructation, extracting, extraction, instructed, interacted, intercaste, intercepts, interdicts, interjects, intersects, interstice, introjects, introspect, precutting, protecting, protection, ratcheting, recitation, remittance, reticently, retracting, retraction, scattering, scuttering, stretching, strictness, syncretist, tetracaine, trajecting, trajection, tricotines, trisecting, trisection. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 49 54 54 45 52 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .. - - . .-. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C I T T E R N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0049 0054 0054 0045 0052 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37435454395248 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabe, arab, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, français, francia, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, hongrois, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugais, portugál, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, espagnol, spanyol, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, suédois, svéd, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, angol, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk |
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