aeolian lyre

1. 1.

   a harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over them

   Synonymsaeolian harpwind harp

   Broaderharp

Questions about aeolian lyre

What does aeolian lyre mean?

aeolian lyre means "a harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over them".

What is another word for aeolian lyre?

Close synonyms include aeolian harp, wind harp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aeolian lyre a common word?

aeolian lyre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.