Definition of lyre in English:
lyre
noun lʌɪəˈlaɪ(ə)r
A stringed instrument like a small U-shaped harp with strings fixed to a crossbar, used especially in ancient Greece. Modern instruments of this type are found mainly in East Africa.
- I wondered what he was thinking as we swayed to the melody of softly playing lutes, harps, and lyres.
- We also had this ‘wind harp,’ a lyre with gut strings, that we'd de-tuned and stuck out in the wind on the truck.
- And indeed she did, for as she entered the meadhall, a tremendous sound of multiple lyres and harps greeted her.
- His distinctive voice resonates like polished grit over a combination of searing strings, Hawaiian lap steels, mellotrons and even enchanted lyres.
- In a way it was a cross between a lyre, violin and a guitar.
- Thus, only two instruments, the lyre and the zither, are needed.
- The mosaics depict a range of fabulous creatures, gods, and heroes, including the four seasons, Orpheus playing a lyre, Perseus and Andromeda, an astrologer, and a Medusa head.
- There are models of the first musical instrument that originated in Africa, the Pan flute, and the lyre, a string instrument which is said to have been used by the Spanish in 2,600 BC.
- She could see it now; musicians years from now would sing of the grand exploits of the amazing Adrianna while plucking at their lyres and mandolins.
- The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery.
- These include harps, lyres, whistles, horns, pan-pipes, bones, psalteries and some form of drum.
- Yes, there is, and some people may not realise that yes, that there was an ancient constellation of the lyre, which was originally called the Lyre of the Pleiades.
- Materials for the Rebec would be much the same as for the harp or lyre, although the Rebec has only three strings.
- What - to go back to very first principles - is at the heart of an art that is underwritten by no mere etymological coincidence: lyre as musical instrument; lyric as literary text?
- It is probable that Fortunatus was here alluding to different varieties of the same plucked string instrument, essentially a lyre.
- He preferred his social life and his poetry and his lyre.
- This double album is a celebration of the lyre, centuries old, and traditionally the favourite instrument of the Sudan.
- In Ireland, however, images of harps show quadrangular instruments, possibly lyres.
- There was a fief, a tambourine, lyres and lutes.
- Many of the riffs are righteously medieval in tone, but they rework those tripping arpeggios for a scorched-earth rock setting, without a lute, zither or lyre within earshot.
Origin
Middle English: via Old French lire and Latin lyra from Greek lura.
Rhymes
acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah
Definition of lyre in US English:
lyre
nounˈlaɪ(ə)rˈlī(ə)r
A stringed instrument like a small U-shaped harp with strings fixed to a crossbar, used especially in ancient Greece. Modern instruments of this type are found mainly in East Africa.
- In a way it was a cross between a lyre, violin and a guitar.
- His distinctive voice resonates like polished grit over a combination of searing strings, Hawaiian lap steels, mellotrons and even enchanted lyres.
- He preferred his social life and his poetry and his lyre.
- Many of the riffs are righteously medieval in tone, but they rework those tripping arpeggios for a scorched-earth rock setting, without a lute, zither or lyre within earshot.
- There are models of the first musical instrument that originated in Africa, the Pan flute, and the lyre, a string instrument which is said to have been used by the Spanish in 2,600 BC.
- We also had this ‘wind harp,’ a lyre with gut strings, that we'd de-tuned and stuck out in the wind on the truck.
- It is probable that Fortunatus was here alluding to different varieties of the same plucked string instrument, essentially a lyre.
- The mosaics depict a range of fabulous creatures, gods, and heroes, including the four seasons, Orpheus playing a lyre, Perseus and Andromeda, an astrologer, and a Medusa head.
- I wondered what he was thinking as we swayed to the melody of softly playing lutes, harps, and lyres.
- And indeed she did, for as she entered the meadhall, a tremendous sound of multiple lyres and harps greeted her.
- Yes, there is, and some people may not realise that yes, that there was an ancient constellation of the lyre, which was originally called the Lyre of the Pleiades.
- The angels are playing a collection of musical instruments, including the harp, tambourine, cymbals, lyre and psaltery.
- Materials for the Rebec would be much the same as for the harp or lyre, although the Rebec has only three strings.
- These include harps, lyres, whistles, horns, pan-pipes, bones, psalteries and some form of drum.
- In Ireland, however, images of harps show quadrangular instruments, possibly lyres.
- What - to go back to very first principles - is at the heart of an art that is underwritten by no mere etymological coincidence: lyre as musical instrument; lyric as literary text?
- This double album is a celebration of the lyre, centuries old, and traditionally the favourite instrument of the Sudan.
- She could see it now; musicians years from now would sing of the grand exploits of the amazing Adrianna while plucking at their lyres and mandolins.
- There was a fief, a tambourine, lyres and lutes.
- Thus, only two instruments, the lyre and the zither, are needed.
Origin
Middle English: via Old French lire and Latin lyra from Greek lura.