Song

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English

Noun

Song (plural Songs)
  1. A short musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
    Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.
  2. The act or art of singing.
  3. A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
    I love hearing the song of canary birds.
  4. Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
    He bought that car for a song.

Adjectives for Song

emotional; melodious; dramatic; character- istic; throbbing; shanty; voluntary; comic; faultless; boisterous; spiritual; mournfulc scurrilous; pealing; solemn; humorous; ineffable; choral; monotonous; rapturous; tranquil; echoing; vapid; immortal; buoy¬ant; deathless; cheerful; weird; antiquated; impassioned; speechless; perpetual; artful; amorous; affectionate; irksome; unconnected; everlasting; protracted; joyous; provoking; unmusical; indolent; savage; drawling; ringing; lifeless; ribald; generous; gusty; rich; blithe; unpremeditated; mystic; shrill; laborious; foolish; magnetic; quivering; syncopated; pastoral; dropping; wondrous; jubilant; plaintive; tragic; parting; chastening; saucy; desperate; ear-breaking; coarse; sunny; eddying; arduous; grandest; wailing; fatal; medicinal; worthless; doleful; visible; yearning; piquant; rollicking; fiery; stifling; hideous; twilight; adventurous; belligerent; noble; nuptial

Verbs for Song

accompany—; break out into—; breathe—; carol—; chant—; compose—; dash into —; diffuse—; echo—; execute—; exploit —; flood with—; hum—; improvise—; intone—; lilt—; perform—; pipe—; perpet¬uate—; render—; stifle—; strike up—; trill —; twitter—; warble—; whistle—; —breaks out; —descends upon; —dwindles; —expresses; —evolves; —laments; —merges; — moderates; —modulates; —pierces; —s pour; —quavers; —recaptures; —ripples; —shatters; —subsides; —swells; —uplifts; ——vibrates.

Thesaurus

Brautlied, Christmas carol, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Kunstlied, Liebeslied, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Volkslied, ado, air, alba, anacreontic, anthem, aria, art song, aubade, balada, ballad, ballade, ballata, barcarole, bel canto, blues, blues song, boat song, bother, bravura, bridal hymn, brindisi, bucolic, calypso, canso, canticle, canto, cantus, canzone, canzonet, canzonetta, carol, cavatina, chanson, chant, chantey, cheaply, choral singing, clerihew, coloratura, commotion, croon, croon song, crooning, cry, descant, dirge, dithyramb, ditty, drinking song, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, evasion, flap, folk singing, folk song, for a song, fuss, georgic, ghazel, haiku, hum, humming, hymeneal, hymn, idyll, inexpensively, intonation, jingle, lay, lied, lilt, limerick, line, love song, love-lilt, lyric, lyricism, madrigal, matin, measure, melodia, melodic line, melody, minstrel song, minstrelsy, monody, musical thought, narrative poem, national anthem, note, number, nursery rhyme, ode, operatic singing, palinode, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, performance, piece, poem, poesy, poetry, prevarication, prothalamium, refrain, rhyme, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, scat, scat singing, serena, serenade, serenata, sestina, singing, sloka, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, solo, solo part, sonnet, sonnet sequence, soprano part, strain, tale, tanka, tenso, tenzone, the supreme fiction, theme song, threnody, to-do, tonic sol-fa, torch song, treble, triolet, troubadour poem, tune, verse, verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay, vocal music, vocalization, war song, warbling, wedding song, yodel, yodeling

Etymology

From Old English sang, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz.

Pronunciation

Translations

music with words
sound of a bird — see birdsong
sound of another animal
inexpensive deal
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Derived terms

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

Faroese

Noun

song f.

  1. bed

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [sɔŋɡ]

Declension

f11 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative song songin seingir/
sengur 		seingirnar/
sengurnar
Accusative song songina seingir/
sengur 		seingirnar/
sengurnar
Dative song songini seingjum seingjunum
Genitive seingjar/
songar 		seingjarinnar/
songarinnar 		seingja seingjanna

Mandarin

Pinyin syllable

song

  1. Nonstandard spelling of sōng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of sǒng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of sòng.

Notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

Song m. (definite singular Songen; indefinite plural Songar; definite plural Songane)

  1. song
    Kven er det som syng denne songen?
    Who sings this song?

Etymology

From Old Norse sǫngr.

References

  • “Song” in The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
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