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Lyric   /lˈɪrɪk/   Listen
Lyric

adjective
1.
Expressing deep emotion.  Synonym: lyrical.
2.
Used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range.
3.
Relating to or being musical drama.
4.
Of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way).
noun
1.
The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number.  Synonyms: language, words.  "He wrote both words and music" , "The song uses colloquial language"
2.
A short poem of songlike quality.  Synonym: lyric poem.
verb
(past lyricked; past part. lyricked; pres. part. lyricking)
1.
Write lyrics for (a song).



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"Lyric" Quotes from Famous Books



... September, Gluck finished a new opera, "Echo et Narcisse," and with this work decided to close his career, feeling he was too old to write longer for the lyric stage. He was then nearly seventy years old, and retired to Vienna, to rest and enjoy the fruits of all his years of incessant toil. He was now rich, as he had earned nearly thirty thousand pounds. Kings and princes came to do him honor, and ...
— The World's Great Men of Music - Story-Lives of Master Musicians • Harriette Brower
... Barty to begin a lyric that will probably last as long as the English language with an innocent jingle worthy ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... and had cultivated the same without judgment. His intricate disposition and extreme sensitiveness frightened him away from much effort at self-expression; yet not a few trifling scraps and shreds of lyric poetry had fallen from his pen in high moments. These, when the mood changed, he read again, and found dead, and usually destroyed. He was more easily discouraged than a child who sets out to tell its parent a story, and is all silence and shamefaced blushes at the first whisper of laughter ...
— Children of the Mist • Eden Phillpotts
... lyric breathe Above her hero-urns; And Scotland, with her holly, wreathe The flower he ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... virtue. Yet to him it must be confessed that we are indebted for the connection of a national error, and for the cure of our Pindaric madness. He first taught the English writers that Pindar's odes were regular; and though certainly he had not the lire requisite for the higher species of lyric poetry, he has shown us that enthusiasm has its rules, and that in mere confusion there ...
— Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope • Samuel Johnson


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