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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

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 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

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Etymology

Origin of lied

Borrowed into English from German around 1850–55

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