lyra — meaning in English
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English meaning
- lute noun A stringed musical instrument with a rounded, pear-shaped body and a fretted neck, played by plucking.
- lyra noun A hoop suspended from above, used by aerial acrobats to perform holds, spins, and drops.
- lyre noun A small stringed instrument from ancient Greece, with two arms rising from a body to a crossbar, plucked like a harp.
Senses
lyra is used for these senses in English:
- Lyra (constellation) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lyre. It includes the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula.
- lute A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
- lyre (string instrument) 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.
lute — full definition
- noun A stringed musical instrument with a rounded, pear-shaped body and a fretted neck, played by plucking.
- verb To play music on a lute.
lyra — full definition
- noun A hoop suspended from above, used by aerial acrobats to perform holds, spins, and drops.
- noun A pear-shaped bowed string instrument played upright on the knee, found in Byzantine, Cretan, and other Eastern Mediterranean folk music.
- noun (astronomy, capitalized) A small northern constellation said to look like a lyre, containing the bright star Vega.