Lyric
['lɪrɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a short poem of songlike quality.
(noun.) 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'.
(verb.) write lyrics for (a song).
(adj.) expressing deep emotion; 'the dancer's lyrical performance' .
(adj.) used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; 'a lyric soprano' .
(adj.) of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); 'lyric poetry' .
(adj.) relating to or being musical drama; 'the lyric stage' .
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Definition
(a.) Alt. of Lyrical
(n.) A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.
(n.) A composer of lyric poems.
(n.) A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(n.) The words of a song.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Lyric poem.
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Examples
- Take the words of a lyric for what they say, and they say nothing most of the time. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Dramatic and lyric poetry, like every other branch of Greek literature, was falling under the power of rhetoric. Plato. The Republic.
- The language was there, visible, but untranslatable--a poem, a fervid lyric, in an unknown tongue. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He also declares that if his life were to be twice as long he would have no time to read the lyric poets. Plato. The Republic.
- In the lyric poet the control is often so delicate that the hearer lives over again the finely shaded mood of the poet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In addition, there were also poems of more homely character, love songs, war lyrics, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Taking up a little gilt volume, I found it to contain a selection of lyrics. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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