LYRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lyre mean? 

• LYRE (noun)
  The noun LYRE has 1 sense:

1. a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment

  Familiarity information: LYRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lyre" is a kind of...):

harp (a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lyre"):

trigon (a triangular lyre of ancient Greece and Rome)