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Definition of 'song'Noun
( en-noun)
A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
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*{{quote-book|1852|Mrs M.A. Thompson|chapter=The Tutor's Daughter|Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion|page= 266
|passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
*|chapter=5
|title= The Mirror and the Lamp
|passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song , the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
(label) Any musical composition.
Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:This subject for heroic song .
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song .
The act or art of singing.
A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
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*(Benjamin Silliman) (1779–1864)
*:The soldier's pay is a song .
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*: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;.
An object of derision; a laughing stock.
*(Bible), (w) xxx. 9
*:And now am I their song , yea, I am their byword.
Derived terms
( der-top3)
* birdsong
* for a song
* old song
* on song
* singsong
( der-mid3)
* siren song
* Song of Solomon
* Song of Songs
* songsheet
( der-mid3)
* song sparrow
* song thrush
* songwise
* songwriter
* swan song
( der-bottom)
See also
* canticle
* go for a song
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