lied

¹

[lahyd]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lie.

lied

²

[leed, leet]

noun

plural

lieder 

1. a typically 19th-century German art song characterized by the setting of a poetic text in either strophic or through-composed style and the treatment of the piano and voice in equal artistic partnership.

   Schubert lieder.

lied

/ liːt, liːd /

noun

1. music any of various musical settings for solo voice and piano of a romantic or lyrical poem, for which composers such as Schubert, Schumann, and Wolf are famous

Word History and Origins

Origin of lied¹

Borrowed into English from German around 1850–55

Word History and Origins

Origin of lied¹

from German: song

Example Sentences

He has lied to and threatened us in the press nearly every time he sees us.

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"Michel lied unapologetically and unrelentingly to carry out his schemes," prosecutors said.

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“Oh, what a tangled web we weave,” Alex says in response to the prosecutor questioning why he lied about his whereabouts on the night of the murders.

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He said that Mr Lynch had "not only perpetrated an enormous fraud, but lied about it at every stage".

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“I—I may have seen it, my lord,” she half lied.

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Related Words

• chant 
• ditty 
• oratorio 
• paean 
• psalm