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lied

1 American  
[lahyd] / laɪd /

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of lie.


lied 2 American  
[leed, leet] / lid, lit /

noun

lieder plural
  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 British  
/ 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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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noun

Etymology

Origin of lied

Borrowed into English from German around 1850–55

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Saadiq: Same guitar is what I played on “I Lied to You.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

It all belongs, in the same way the crash of Chinese cymbals in the remix of Sammie’s signature song “I Lied to You” only punches up that gumbo’s flavor.

From Salon • May 2, 2025

But in February she picked Chloe's song I Lied, I'm Sorry, just a couple of months after the track was featured as BBC Introducing's Track of the Week.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2025

Although its expansiveness and form recall Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde,” it is neither a song cycle nor a symphony.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024

On the front is the name of the play, its author, and the date and place of the performance—Thursday, June 23, 2011, at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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