Lydian
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
Lydian (plural Lydians)
- A native or inhabitant of ancient Lydia.
- An extinct Indo-European language in the Anatolian subgroup.
Lydian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to Lydia, or its people, language or culture.
- (music) Designating a mode of ancient Greek music, reputed to be light and effeminate.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book III, canto I:
- And all the while sweet Musicke did diuide / Her looser notes with Lydian harmony {{...}
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