lyre

lyre  (lr)

n.

A stringed instrument of the harp family having two curved arms connected at the upper end by a crossbar, used to accompany a singer or reciter of poetry, especially in ancient Greece.

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[Middle English lire, from Old French, from Latin lyra, from Greek lura.]

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lyre [laɪə]

n

1. (Music / Instruments) an ancient Greek stringed instrument consisting of a resonating tortoise shell to which a crossbar was attached by two projecting arms. It was plucked with a plectrum and used for accompanying songs

2. (Music / Instruments) any ancient instrument of similar design

3. (Music / Instruments) a medieval bowed instrument of the violin family

[via Old French from Latin lyra, from Greek lura]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

lyre - a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment harp - a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers trigon - a triangular lyre of ancient Greece and Rome

Translations

lyre [ˈlaɪəʳ] N → lira f

lyre [ˈliːɒn] n → lyre f

lyre

n → Leier f, → Lyra f (geh)

lyre [ˈlaɪəʳ] n → lira

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lyre [ˈlaɪəʳ] n → lira