Lyric

Adjective

 * 1)  Of, or relating to a type of poetry (such as a sonnet or ode) that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style
 * Of, or relating to a writer of such poetry
 * 1) lyrical
 * 2) Having a light singing voice of modest range
 * Of, or relating to musical drama and opera
 * 1) melodious
 * Of, or relating to the lyre (or sometimes the harp)

Derived terms

 * lyrical
 * lyrically

Noun

 * 1) A lyric poem.
 * 2)  The words of a song or other vocal music. The singular form often refers to a part of the words, whereas the plural form can refer to all of the words.
 * The lyric in line 3 doesn't rhyme.
 * The lyrics were written by the composer.

Derived terms

 * lyricism
 * lyricist
 * lyricize

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From lyrique:, or its source,  lyricus:, from  λυρικός:, from λύρα:.

Anagrams

 * Cyril