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- lyre
- A stringed musical instrument
- {n} an old musical instrument, a harp
- one of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class
- [n] a stringed instrument in the harp family, a symbol of Apollo, the Greek god of music
- Small stringed instrument used in Greek and Roman music Compare cithara
- {i} ancient Greek harp-like instrument
- [church] Christian symbol which signifies joy See: symbol
- a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
- One of the constellations; Lyra
- An ancient stringed instrument Two projecting arms support a crossbar, from which strings are stretched down to the soundbox The lyre and the related kithara were popular stringed instruments in ancient Greece The lyre is still played in forms of ethnic music The Greeks plucked the strings with a plectrum; in other cultures the fingers are used
- Ancient plucked-string instrument of the harp family, used to accompany singing and poetry
- A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry
- A lyre is a stringed instrument that looks like a small harp. 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. a musical instrument with strings across a U-shaped frame, played with the fingers, especially in ancient Greece (lire, from lyra, from ). Stringed musical instrument consisting of a resonating body with two arms and a crossbar to which the strings extending from the resonator are attached. Lyrelike instruments existed in Sumer before 2000 BC. Greek lyres were of two types, the kithara and the lyra. The latter had a rounded body and a curved back often a tortoiseshell and a skin belly. It was the instrument of the amateur; professionals used the more elaborate kithara. In ancient Greece the lyre was an attribute of Apollo and symbolized wisdom and moderation. In medieval Europe new varieties of lyre emerged that, like the kithara, were box lyres, although their precise relation to the lyres of Classical antiquity is not known. The lyres of modern East Africa probably reflect ancient diffusion of the instrument via Egypt
- Harplike stringed instrument used as a decorative motif for chair backs, table pedestals, etc Found especially on Duncan Phyfe furniture
- (also Lyra): This ancient Greet instrument was played by Apollo, Greek god of music The body was made of wood or tortoise shell Its curved arms hold five to twelve gut strings It was plucked with a plectrum