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Definitions of lyric
  1. adjective
    expressing deep emotion
    "the dancer's lyrical performance"

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  2. noun
    a short poem of songlike quality

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  3. noun
    the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
    "his compositions always started with the lyrics"

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  4. adjective
    of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)
    "lyric poetry"
  5. adjective
    relating to or being musical drama
    "the lyric stage"
  6. adjective
    used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range
    "a lyric soprano"
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  7. verb
    write lyrics for (a song)
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Definition that contains lyric
  • rice English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)
  • punk rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock
  • rap genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
  • porter United States composer and lyricist of musical comedies (1891-1946)
  • brooke English lyric poet (1887-1915)
  • frost United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
  • hart United States lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers (1895-1943)
  • horace Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)
  • lyric write lyrics for (a song)
  • jimenez Spanish lyric poet (1881-1958)
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