1) Ancient harplike instrument 
• (n.) See Cithara.
stringed musical instrument, one of the two principal types of ancient Greek lyres. It had a wooden soundboard and a box-shaped body, or resonator, ... [4 related articles]
Kith'a·ra (-ȧ*rȧ) noun See Cithara . 
A kithara was a stringed musical instrument of Ancient Greece, somewhat similar to a lyre, consisting on an elaborate wooden soundbox with two arms connected by a yoke to which the top ends of the strings were attached.
a stringed instrument, like a lyre.
a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of an elaborate wooden soundbox having two arms connected by a yoke to which the upper ends of the strings are attached.