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Lyre has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment

2

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.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
harp
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
trigon
Rhyming Words
wyre tyre pyre ayre gyre byre eyre fayre sayre dipyre retyre theyre kintyre vampyre mcintyre levogyre blantyre lake eyre melaphyre macintyre
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