• (British) IPA: /sɒŋ/
• (America) IPA: /sɔŋ/, /sɑŋ/

song (plural songs)

1. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.

   Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.

2. (by extension) Any musical composition.
3. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 8”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     This subject for heroic song.

   • The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.

4. The act or art of singing.
5. A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.

   I love hearing the song of canary birds.

   • That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.

6. (ornithology) The distinctive sound that a male bird utters to attract a mate or to protect his territory; contrasts with call
7. Something that costs only a little; chiefly in for a song.

   He bought that car for a song.

   • The soldier's pay is a song.

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546 ↗; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860 ↗, 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; […].

8. An object of derision; a laughing stock.
   • Bible, Book of Job xxx. 9

     And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

• French: chanson
• German: Lied, Gesang, Song
• Italian: canzone
• Portuguese: canção, cantiga
• Russian: пе́сня
• Spanish: canción

• Portuguese: música

1. (historical) A former dynasty in China, reigning from the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the beginning of the Yuan.
2. (historical) A former empire in China, occupying the eastern half of modern China.
3. (historical) The era of Chinese history during which the dynasty reigned.
4. Surname
5. (geography) A river in Papua New Guinea.
6. (geography) Various minor rivers in China.

• (Chinese state) Sung
• (Chinese surname) Sung, Soong
• (Chinese rivers) Songjiang, Song Jiang