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LIED (lieder)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lied mean?
• LIED (noun)
The noun LIED has 1 sense:
1. a German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano
Familiarity information: LIED used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lied" is a kind of...):
Context examples
They shuffled and lied—said that they found it on the moor on Tuesday morning.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I guess I'll go down and see how Joe's getting on," was the way he put it to himself; and in the same moment he knew that he lied.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“I don’t understand,” I lied, for I thoroughly understood.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“He never told you,” cried Mr. Hyde, with a flush of anger. “I did not think you would have lied.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Then they went away again, and the king said to the lion: “You have lied to me, they walk just like men.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Of course, I lied: it was, in fact, a very faithful representation of Mr. Rochester.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Evidently, therefore, Alec Cunningham had lied when he said that the two men were struggling when the shot was fired.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The guard treated him unfairly, lied about him to the warden, lost his credits, persecuted him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“Archer,” quoth Hordle John, “you have lied more than once and more than twice; for which, and also because I see much in you to dislike, I am sorely tempted to lay you upon your back.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet I will set it down now, while it is still fresh in my memory, and one at least, the man who lay in the damp grasses by my side, will know if I have lied.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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