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LYRE
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I. (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)
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