Usually means: Stringed musical instrument, harp-like.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word lyre:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lyre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lyre: Merriam-Webster
  3. lyre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lyre: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lyre: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lyre, lyre: Wordnik
  7. lyre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lyre: Wiktionary
  9. lyre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lyre: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lyre: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lyre, lyre: Dictionary.com
  13. lyre: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Lyre (disambiguation), Lyre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lyre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lyre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lyre: Rhymezone
  18. Lyre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lyre: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Lyre: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. lyre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lyre: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. lyre: FreeDictionary.org

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Essentials of Music (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lyre: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. LYRE: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lyre: The Folk File
  2. lyre: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) 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.
noun:  Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
noun:  A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.
noun:  (obsolete) A composer of lyric poetry.
verb:  (rare) to play the lyre

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