song
see also: Song
Etymology
Song
Pronunciation
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see also: Song
Etymology
From Middle English song, sang, from Old English sang, from Proto-West Germanic *sangu, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ-.
Pronunciation Nounsong
A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing. - Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
- (by extension) Any musical composition.
- Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:
- This subject for heroic song.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight's Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC ↗:
- The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.
- The act or art of singing.
- A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
- I love hearing the song of canary birds.
- 1833, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Canterbury Pilgrims:
- That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
- (ornithology) The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call; also, similar vocalisations made by female birds.
- A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
- He bought that car for a song.
- 1810, Benjamin Silliman, A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland:
- his [a common soldier's] pay is a song.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC ↗; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC ↗, page 0016 ↗:
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
- An object of derision; a laughing stock.
- French: chanson
- German: Lied, Gesang, Song
- Italian: canzone
- Portuguese: canção, cantiga, música
- Russian: пе́сня
- Spanish: canción
- Spanish: por poco dinero, de balde
Song
Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /sɔŋ/, /sɑŋ/
Borrowed from Mandarin - 宋.
Proper noun- (historical) A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.
- (historical) A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China.
- (historical) The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned.
- Surname.
- A river in China; any of various minor rivers in China.
- A river in Papua New Guinea
- A lgarea in Adamawa, Nigeria.
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