Melic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to verse that is intended to be sung, especially Greek lyric verse of the seventh to fifth century B.C.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of various grasses, of the genus Melica, from north temperate regions
  • adj. Of or pertaining to Greek lyric verse
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Of or pertaining to song; lyric; tuneful.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to song; intended to be sung: applied especially to the more elaborate form of Greek lyric poetry, as distinguished from iambic and elegiac poetry.
  • n. A plant of the genus Melica.
  • Word Usage
    "Lyric poetry, properly defined, was a distinct branch of what was classified as "melic" poetry (the term roughly translates as "melody" or "air"), strictly differentiated from poetic genres that were meant to be recited without instrumentation or performed with other instruments such as the flute and the oboe-like aulos."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    lyric    tuneful