- a piece of music, usually employing a verbal text, composed for the voice, esp one intended for performance by a soloist
- the whole repertory of such pieces
- (as modifier): a song book
- poetical composition; poetry
- the characteristic tuneful call or sound made by certain birds or insects
- the act or process of singing: they raised their voices in song
- for a song ⇒ at a bargain price
- on song ⇒ Brit informal performing at peak efficiency or ability
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song /sɔŋ, sɑŋ/USA pronunciation
n.
See -son-.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2023- Music and Dance[countable] a short piece of music for singing.
- Music and Dance the art or act of singing;
vocal music:[uncountable]a night of wine, women, and song. - Animal Behavior[countable] a patterned vocal sound produced by an animal, as by male birds, frogs, etc.
- Idioms for a song, at a very low price:I bought the rug for a song.
See -son-.
song
(sông, song),USA pronunciation n.
song′like′, adj.
Song (sông),USA pronunciation n. [Pinyin.]
- Music and Dancea short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, esp. one in rhymed stanzas;
a lyric;
a ballad. - Music and Dancea musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece to be sung:Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words.''
- Poetrypoetical composition;
poetry. - Music and Dancethe art or act of singing;
vocal music. - Music and Dancesomething that is sung.
- Animal Behavioran elaborate vocal signal produced by an animal, as the distinctive sounds produced by certain birds, frogs, etc., in a courtship or territorial display.
- for a song, at a very low price;
as a bargain:We bought the rug for a song when the estate was auctioned off.
- bef. 900; Middle English song, sang, Old English; cognate with German Sang, Old Norse sǫngr, Gothic saggws
Song (sông),USA pronunciation n. [Pinyin.]
- Sung.
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song /sɒŋ/ n
Soong
(sŏŏng),USA pronunciation n. Ai-ling
(ī′ling′),USA pronunciation 1888–1973, wife of H. H. Kung.
Ching-ling or Ch'ing-ling
(ching′ling′),USA pronunciation 1892–1981, widow of Sun Yat-sen.
Mei-ling or Mayling
(mā′ling′),USA pronunciation born 1898, wife of Chiang Kai-shek.
Tse-ven or Tzu-wen
(tsŏŏ′wun′),USA pronunciation (T.V.), 1894–1971, Chinese financier.
- Biographical Charles Jones, 1866–1918, Chinese merchant (father of Ai-ling, Ch'ing-ling, Mei-ling, and Tse-ven Soong).
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Song /sʊŋ/ n
- the Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese name for Sung
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Soong, 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
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Sung, Song /sʊŋ/ n
- an imperial dynasty of China (960–1279 ad), notable for its art, literature, and philosophy
'song' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Aoede
- Arne
- Berlin
- Bhagavad-Gita
- Butterworth
- Canticle of Canticles
- Carmen
- Chanson de Roland
- Coleridge-Taylor
- Fischer-Dieskau
- abba-dabba
- ablaut
- accent
- air
- alba
- all-time
- alleluia
- alouette
- amusia
- anthem
- antiphon
- aria
- art song
- aubade
- babbler
- ballad
- barcarole
- belt
- belter
- bhajan
- bird call
- birdsong
- blues
- bob
- brain
- break
- bright
- broadside
- burden
- burst
- by
- canción
- canonize
- canorous
- cant
- cantar
- canticle
- canticum
- cantilena
- canto