Usually means: Stringed musical instrument, ancient Greece.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word lyra:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lyra, lyra: Merriam-Webster
  2. Lyra: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Lyra: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Lyra: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lyra, lyra: Wordnik
  6. Lyra, lyra: Wiktionary
  7. Lyra: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Lyra: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Lyra: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Lyra: Dictionary.com
  11. LYRA, Lyra (Cretan), Lyra (constellation), Lyra (disambiguation), Lyra (song), Lyra (virtual assistant), Lyra: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Lyra: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. lyra: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Lyra: Rhymezone
  15. Lyra: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. lyra: FreeDictionary.org
  17. lyra: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Lyra: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Lyra: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lyra: Global Glossary
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lyra (constellation), Lyra: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lyra: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Lyra: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. LYRA: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lyra: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lyra: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lyras as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Lyra)

noun:  (anatomy, dated) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain.
noun:  A vertically suspended hoop used in acrobatic performances.
noun:  A bowed string musical instrument used in the Byzantine Empire.
noun:  A bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece.
noun:  (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lyre. It includes the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula.
noun:  (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek.

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