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adjectiveexpressing deep emotion
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nouna short poem of songlike quality
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nounthe text of a popular song or musical-comedy numbertype of:
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adjectiveof or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way)
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adjectiverelating to or being musical drama
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adjectiveused of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in rangeOpposite:
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verbwrite lyrics for (a song)
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)