a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, esp. one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
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a musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece to be sung: Mendelssohn's “Songs without Words.”
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poetical composition; poetry.
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the art or act of singing; vocal music.
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something that is sung.
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an elaborate vocal signal produced by an animal, as the distinctive sounds produced by certain birds, frogs, etc., in a courtship or territorial display.
—Idiom
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for a song, at a very low price; as a bargain: We bought the rug for a song when the estate was auctioned off.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME song, sang, OE; c. G Sang, ON sǫngr, Goth saggws]
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A Chinese dynasty (960-1279). Under its rule China achieved one of its highest levels of culture and prosperity.
[Chinese (Mandarin) Sòng, named after Sòng prefecture by its founder Zhao Kuangyin, where he was conferred his title.]
O.E. sang "art of singing, a metrical composition adapted for singing," from P.Gmc. *sangwaz (cf. O.N. söngr, Norw. song, Swed. sång, O.S., Dan., O.Fris., O.H.G., Ger. sang, M.Du. sanc, Du. zang, Goth. saggws), related to sing (q.v.). Songbook is O.E. sangboc;song-bird is from 1774; songster is O.E. sangystre. Phrase for a song is from "All's Well" III.ii.9. With a song in (one's) heart "feeling of joy" is first attested 1930 in Lorenz Hart's lyric. Song and dance as a form of vaudeville act is attested from 1872; fig. sense of "rigmarole" is from 1895.
a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs"
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a distinctive or characteristic sound; "the song of bullets was in the air"; "the song of the wind"; "the wheels sang their song as the train rocketed ahead"
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the act of singing; "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates"
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the characteristic sound produced by a bird; "a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age" [syn: birdcall]
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a very small sum; "he bought it for a song"
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the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy [syn: Sung]
Sing\, v. i. [imp. Sungor Sang; p. p. Sung; p. pr. & vb. n. Singing.] [AS. singan; akin to D. zingen, OS. & OHG. singan, G. singen, Icel. syngja, Sw. sjunga, Dan. synge, Goth. siggwan, and perhaps to E. say, v.t., or cf. Gr. ??? voice. Cf. Singe, Song.]1. To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of a given part (as alto, tenor, etc.) in a chorus or concerted piece. The noise of them that sing do I hear. --Ex. xxxii. 18. 2. To utter sweet melodious sounds, as birds do. On every bough the briddes heard I sing. --Chaucer. Singing birds, in silver cages hung. --Dryden. 3. To make a small, shrill sound; as, the air sings in passing through a crevice. O'er his head the flying spear Sang innocent, and spent its force in air. --Pope. 4. To tell or relate something in numbers or verse; to celebrate something in poetry. --Milton. Bid her . . . sing Of human hope by cross event destroyed. --Prior. 5. Ti cry out; to complain. [Obs.] They should sing if thet they were bent. --Chaucer.
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