song

IPA: sˈɔŋ

noun

  • A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
  • (by extension) Any musical composition.
  • Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
  • The act or art of singing.
  • A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
  • (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.
  • An object of derision; a laughing stock.
  • (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.
  • A surname from Chinese.
  • A river in China; any of various minor rivers in China.
  • A river in Papua New Guinea
  • A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
  • A surname from Khmer.
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Examples of "song" in Sentences

  • because the cry here is wing to wing10 and song to song—
  • I'm using the term "song cycle" for Scaling because I'm really grouping these songs together.
  • The fascinating thing to me is that Phil Spector recorded the title song which is played over the Osterley Park sequence.
  • My Dear Hodgson, -- I thank you for your song, or, rather, your two songs, -- your new song on love, and your _old song_ on _religion_.
  • On his first solo album, “Journey’s End,” Matthew Fisher wrote and sang a song with the lyric, “Just don’t make me play **that song** again.”
  • This was a tumultuous mixture of the wild carouse, the noisy song, and the drunken dance; and the meaning of the word comedy is a comus _song_.
  • The melody flows or soars like the song of a bird, because it is the free expression, not of musical fantasy, as such (the unconscious play of tonal fancy), but the flow of _melody_, _song_, the soaring of spirit in some one particular direction, floating upon buoyant pinions, and in directions well conceived and sure.
  • It must be confessed, however, that the field of English slang verse and canting song, though not altogether barren, has yet small claim to the idiomatic and plastic treatment that obtains in many an _Argot - song_ and _Germania-romance; _ in truth, with a few notable exceptions, there is little in the present collection that can claim literary rank.

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