1. 1. Of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style or form.
   2. Relating to or constituting a poem in this category, such as a sonnet or an ode.
   3. Of or relating to a writer of poems in this category.
2. Lyrical.
3. Music.
   1. Having a singing voice of light volume and modest range.
   2. Of, relating to, or being musical drama, especially opera: the lyric stage.
   3. Having a pleasing succession of sounds; melodious.
   4. Of or relating to the lyre or harp.
   5. Appropriate for accompaniment by the lyre.

1. A lyric poem.
2. Music. The words of a song. Often used in the plural.

[French lyrique, of a lyre, from Old French, from Latin lyricus, from Greek lurikos, from lura, lyre.]

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