DULCIMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dulcimer mean? 

• DULCIMER (noun)
  The noun DULCIMER has 2 senses:

1. a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings

2. a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers

  Familiarity information: DULCIMER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DULCIMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dulcimer" is a kind of...):

stringed instrument (a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dulcimer" is a kind of...):

cither; zither; zithern (a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers)