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lied

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //liːd//
  • //laɪd//

An art song, usually sung solo in German and accompanied on the piano.

noun

  1. 1

    An art song, usually sung solo in German and accompanied on the piano.

Etymology

Borrowed from German Lied (“song”). Doublet of leed, which was inherited by Old English lēoþ (“poem”).

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of liesimple past and past participle of lie (in the sense "to give false information intentionally")

    “They put on an unemotional face but they're concerned, all right,” he said. “I lied, you know, and they know it. At least Sam knows it. This just might not be so routine a procedure. But we have to go in, and right now.[…]

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Forms

plural
lieder
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).