About The Word Lyric

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Lyric

Lyric Meaning & Definition
Lyric Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lyric?

[n] a short poem of songlike quality
[n] the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
[adj] expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"
[adj] (music; of a singer or singing voice) being light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano"
[adj] (poetry) "lyric poetry"
[adj] (music) relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"
[v] write lyrics for (a song)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lyric: coloratura | emotional | language | lyric poem | lyrical | words

Related Terms | Find terms related to Lyric: alba | anacreontic | balada | ballad | ballade | book | bucolic | canso | chanson | clerihew | dirge | dithyramb | dulcet | eclogue | elegy | English sonnet | epic | epigram | epithalamium | epode | epopee | epopoeia | epos | georgic | ghazel | graceful | haiku | Horatian ode | idiosyncratic | idyll | individual | Italian sonnet | jingle | libretto | light | limerick | lyrical | lyrics | madrigal | mellifluous | mellow | melodic | melodious | monody | musical | narrative poem | nursery rhyme | ode | palinode | pastoral | pastoral elegy | pastorela | pastourelle | personal | Petrarchan sonnet | Pindaric ode | poem | prothalamium | rhapsodic | rhyme | rondeau | rondel | roundel | roundelay | Sapphic ode | satire | sentimental | sestina | Shakespearean sonnet | silvery | sloka | song | sonnet | sonnet sequence | subjective | sweet | tanka | tenso | tenzone | threnody | triolet | troubadour poem | verse | verselet | versicle | villanelle | virelay | words

See Also | antistrophe | compose | indite | love lyric | ode | pen | poem | relyric | song | strophe | text | textual matter | verse form | write

Lyric In Webster's Dictionary

\Lyr"ic\, Lyrical \Lyr"ic*al\, a. [L. lyricus, Gr. ?: cf. F. lyrique. See {Lyre}.] 1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. 2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. ``Sweet lyric song.'' --Milton.
\Lyr"ic\, n. 1. A lyric poem; a lyrical composition. 2. A composer of lyric poems. [R.] --Addison. 3. A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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