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Lyre

//ˈlaɪ.ɚ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
  2. 2
    a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment wordnet
  3. 3
    An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.; Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
  4. 4
    A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
  5. 5
    A composer of lyric poetry. obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    to play the lyre rare

    "Alas, far times ago / A woman lyred here / In the evenfall; one who fain did so / From year to year; / And, in loneliness bending wistfully, / Would wake each note / In sick sad rote, / None to listen or see!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”). Doublet of lira, Lyra, and lyra.

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”). Doublet of lira, Lyra, and lyra.

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