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[sawng, song]

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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.

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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.

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Idiom

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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Song is always a great word to know.

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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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

Example Sentences

The banning of a song has highlighted old racial sensitivities.

Urban bird dwellers change their song over time to help the them be heard over the big city noises.

Like roasting marshmallows to make s'mores, a good summer camp song bridges generations.

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The banning of a song has highlighted old racial sensitivities.

Urban bird dwellers change their song over time to help the them be heard over the big city noises.

Like roasting marshmallows to make s'mores, a good summer camp song bridges generations.

For those with adventurous ears, there's an entire galaxy of science fiction theme song covers to explore.

Their campus bookstore, after all, will be selling upgrades for a song.

Have students read the song and individually write down five words describing the physical environment from the song.

Cotten only needed to hear a tune once or twice to learn it, but she never played a song quite the same way twice.

We start a third of the way into the novel, delivering huge amounts of exposition in a five-minute song.

The song virus is the kind of sickness that can follow a traveler all trip.

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science.

Online stores typically charge more to send a song snippet to your cell phone than they do to download a whole song to your.

Tricky to write a marching song including it though.

Have them perform the song while showing different parts of their quilt to the audience.

Our sense of song helps us learn to talk, read and even make friends.

Pandora lets you establish a playlist based on a single song or artist.

Ohio seems eager to join the debate over campus song swapping.

The plaintive song of the humpback whale can travel for great distances underwater.

There are little science and music nerd-friendly gems in many of the apps and song structures.

Working on this song was great fun with a touch of nostalgia.

Darling has struggled for years to crack the code of the humpback song.

The end will be no song and dance: the accelerator operators will simply stop putting new.

If you right-click any song or playlist, you get the option to play similar tracks.

Realistic birds with actual song recordings make cheerful companions.

Now astronomers think of them as the ultimate stellar swan song.

I've loved this song for years, because it contains a wonderfully subtle pun.

In the words of a country song popular in the outback during the mid-1980s:.

Pick any song in your iTunes library and ask the software to.

Below is the video that has been created specifically for this song.

When you choose a song it is added to the queue and will play next.

Song is robinlike in its short fluty phrases, rendered with a pause in between.

Song delivered in flight is a high-pitched series of tinkling notes.

The sweet, whistled song betrays the presence of this ground-loving blackbird.

Without the language, it is hard to appreciate the beauty or intensity of a song.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun Pinyin.

Ai·ling

[ahy-ling] . Soong, Ai-ling.

Qing·ling

[ching-ling] . Soong, Ching-ling.

Mei·ling

[mey-ling] . Soong, Mei-ling.

Zi·wen

[zœ-wuhn] . Soong, Tse-ven.

Sung.

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World English Dictionary

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

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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.

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

song

In addition to the idiom beginning with song, also see for a song; swan song.

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