lyra
Ancient plucked instrument
Lyra is a small constellation in the northern sky, home to Vega, one of the brightest stars visible from Earth.
The name comes from the lyre, an ancient stringed instrument—the constellation was imagined as the harp of Orpheus.
Lyra also serves as a given name, often chosen for its celestial associations.
Lyra's alpha star
- OrpheusLegendary Greek musician
- harpPlucked orchestral strings
- celestialOf the sky above
- stargazingObserving celestial bodies
sky · asterism · summer · triangle · mythology · brightness · stars · night
Plucked orchestral strings
- stringsThin flexible lines
- pluckingRemoving by tugging
- tortoiseshellMottled brown-yellow shell material
- frameSupporting outer structure
antiquity · reconstruction · replica · tuning · gut · resonance · classical
Vega
Lyra's alpha star
stargazing · sky · asterism · summer · triangle · mythology · brightness · stars · night · alpha
harp
Plucked orchestral strings
- stringsThin flexible lines
- pluckingRemoving by tugging
- tortoiseshellMottled brown-yellow shell material
frame · antiquity · reconstruction · replica · tuning · gut · resonance · classical
Orpheus
Legendary Greek musician
- ApolloSun deity, moonshot namesake
- HermesOlympian messenger deity
- EurydiceMythical wife reclaimed, then lost
underworld · Greek · myth · legend · music · enchantment · Olympus · divine · gift · song
strings
Thin flexible lines
arpeggio · resonance · chord · tuning · acoustic · vibrato · glissando · ensemble · sonata · composition
- Bowed Stringsviolin, viola, cello, double bass, fiddle
- acrobaticsacrobat, tumbling, somersault, cartwheel, handstand
- circus acrobaticsacrobats, trapeze, trapeze artists, flying trapeze, tightrope
- circus artstrapeze, silks, aerial silks, flying trapeze, straps
- Greek Instrumentsbouzouki, syrinx, tympanum
- Greek musicbouzouki, island music, mangas, Greek artists, Greek wedding
lyraelectric guitar
Amplified stringed instrument
synthesizer · electric bass · drum machine · electronic keyboard · turntable
- wax lyricalSpeak enthusiastically at length
- waxing lyricalSpeaking with elaborate enthusiasm
- waxed lyricalSpoke enthusiastically at length
- waxes lyricalSpeaks with enthusiastic eloquence
- lyrical contentA song's textual meaning
- lyrical flowMusical quality in speech
lyrical, lyricist, lyre, lyricism, lyrically, lyres, lyricists