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lyrics

nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • Australia//ˈlɪɹ.ɪks//

The words to a song (or other vocal music).

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of lyricplural of lyric

noun

  1. 1

    The words to a song (or other vocal music).

    song lyrics

    write lyrics

    learn the lyrics

    The song’s lyrics were full of nostalgia.

  2. 2

    A text transcription of any piece of audio, or the words in it.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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).