Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dulcimer

2 senses of dulcimer

Sense 1
dulcimer -- (a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings)
       => stringed instrument -- (a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound)

Sense 2
dulcimer -- (a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers)
       => zither, cither, 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)