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lyric (adj) – 1. (a) Of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style or form.
(b) Relating to or constituting a poem in this category, such as a sonnet or ode.
(c) Of or relating to a writer of poems in this category.
2. (Music) (a) Having a singing voice of light volume and modest range.
(b) Of, relating to, or being musical drama, especially opera.
(c) Having a pleasing succession of sounds; melodious.
(d) Of or relating to the lyre or harp.
(e) Appropriate for accompaniment by the lyre.
(noun) – 1. A lyric poem.
2. (often lyrics Music) The words of a song.
Source : The Free Dictionary
Etymology : To the ancient Greeks, anything lyrikos was appropriate to the lyre. That elegant stringed instrument was highly regarded by the Greeks and was used to accompany intensely personal poetry that revealed the thoughts and feelings of the poet. When the adjective lyric, a descendant of lyrikos, was adopted into English in the 1500s, it too referred to things pertaining or adapted to the lyre. Initially, it was applied to poetic forms (such as elegies, odes, or sonnets) that express strong emotion, to poets who write such works, or to things meant to be sung. Over time, it was extended to anything musical or rhapsodic. Nowadays, lyric is also used as a noun naming either a type of poem or the words of a song.
