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noun

a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.

a musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece to be sung: Mendelssohn's “Songs without Words.”

poetical composition; poetry.

the art or act of singing; vocal music.

something that is sung.

an elaborate vocal signal produced by an animal, as the distinctive sounds produced by certain birds, frogs, etc., in a courtship or territorial display.

Idioms

for a song, at a very low price; as a bargain: We bought the rug for a song when the estate was auctioned off.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English song, sang, Old English; cognate with German Sang, Old Norse sǫngr, Gothic saggws

Related forms

song·like, adjective

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song (sɒŋ)

—n
1.	a. a piece of music, usually employing a verbal text, composed for the voice, esp one intended for performance by a soloist
	b. the whole repertory of such pieces
	c. (as modifier): a song book
2.	poetical composition; poetry
3.	the characteristic tuneful call or sound made by certain birds or insects
4.	the act or process of singing: they raised their voices in song
5.	for a song at a bargain price
6.	informal (Brit) on song performing at peak efficiency or ability

[Old English sang; related to Gothic saggws, Old High German sang; see sing]

'songlike

—*adj*

Song (sʊŋ)

—n
	the Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese name for Sung

Soong or Song (sʊŋ)

—n
	an influential Chinese family, notably Soong Ch'ing-ling (1890--1981), who married Sun Yat-sen and became a vice-chairman of the People's Republic of China (1959); and Soong Mei-ling (1898-2003), who married Chiang Kai-shek

Song or Song

—n

Sung or Song (sʊŋ)

—n
	an imperial dynasty of China (960--1279 ad), notable for its art, literature, and philosophy

Song or Song

—n

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Word Origin & History

song

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.

Matching Quote

"To you, God the Singer, our voices we raise,
to you Song Incarnate, we give all our praise,
to you, Holy Spirit, our life and our breath,
be glory for ever, through life and through death."

-Peter Davison

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