An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.

(rare) to play the lyre

(anatomy, dated) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

A vertically suspended hoop used in acrobatic performances.

A bowed string musical instrument used in the Byzantine Empire. / A bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece.

Appropriate for or suggestive of singing. / Expressive of emotion.

(poetry) Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style / Of or relating to a writer of such poetry / lyrical

A lyric poem. / (usually in the plural) The words of a song or other vocal music.

(astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lyre. It includes the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula. / (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek

Either of two large ground-dwelling Australian songbirds, of the genus Menura, named because of the beautiful tail feathers of the male of one species, the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), which can be erected to look like a lyre, and notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment.