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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, book, bucolic, canso, chanson, clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, dulcet, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, georgic, ghazel, graceful, haiku, idiosyncratic, idyll, individual, jingle, libretto, light, limerick, lyrical, lyrics, madrigal, mellifluous, mellow, melodic, melodious, monody, musical, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, personal, poem, prothalamium, rhapsodic, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sentimental, sestina, silvery, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, subjective, sweet, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troubadour poem, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, words
Dictionary Results for lyric:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
lyric
    adj 1: expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical
           performance" [syn: lyric, lyrical]
    2: used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and
       modest in range; "a lyric soprano" [ant: dramatic]
    3: relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"
    4: of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion
       (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"
    n 1: the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his
         compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote
         both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
         [syn: lyric, words, language]
    2: a short poem of songlike quality [syn: lyric, lyric poem]
    v 1: write lyrics for (a song)

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lyric \Lyr"ic\, Lyrical \Lyr"ic*al\, a. [L. lyricus, Gr. ?: cf.
   F. lyrique. See Lyre.]
   1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate
      for song; suitable for or suggestive of singing; -- of
      music or poetry.
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   3. expressing deep personal emotion; -- said especially of
      poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the
      poet; as, the dancer's lyrical performance. "Sweet lyric
      song." --Milton.

   Syn: lyric.
        [WordNet 1.5]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lyric \Lyr"ic\, n.
   1. A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A composer of lyric poems. [R.] --Addison.
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   3. A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; --
      used chiefly in the plural.
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   4. pl. The words of a song.
      [PJC]

4. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
LYRIC

   Language for Your Remote Instruction by Computer.  A CAI
   language implemented as a Fortran preprocessor.

   ["Computer Assisted Instruction: Specification of Attributes
   for CAI Programs and Programmers", G.M. Silvern et al, Proc
   ACM 21st Natl Conf (1966)].

   (1994-10-12)


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