lyre🔊

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.

Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.

A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.

(obsolete) A composer of lyric poetry.

(rare) To play the lyre.