song
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *séngʷʰ-e-ti
Proto-Germanic *singwaną
Proto-Germanic *sangwaz
Proto-West Germanic *sangu
Old English sang
Middle English song
English song
From Middle English song, sang, from Old English sang, from Proto-West Germanic *sangu, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz (“singing, song”), from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷʰ- (“to sing”). Cognate with Scots sang, song (“singing, song”), Saterland Frisian Song (“song”), West Frisian sang (“song”), Dutch zang (“song”), Low German sang (“song”), German Sang (“singing, song”), Swedish sång (“song”), Norwegian Bokmål sang (“song”), Norwegian Nynorsk song (“song”), Icelandic söngur (“song”), Ancient Greek ὀμφή (omphḗ, “voice, oracle”). More at sing.
Inflected forms:
form: songs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.
The Harpe. […] A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong / Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,[…], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
gloss: Any musical composition.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This subject for heroic song.
The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.
gloss: The act or art of singing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: How often the enthusiast has dwelt upon the birds bursting into song, the buds bursting into flower, all nature bursting into life!—as though a state of things in which everything around us is bursting is at all pleasant.
Or take one that is less of an explanation and more of a song , The Spider . I knew all along what I wanted to say about a spider . I wanted to say all the good things I could . For spiders are the one order of creation that I thoroughly dislike.[…]
gloss: A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I love hearing the song of canary birds.
That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
The robin alone by his soft morning song broke the silence and the solitude which reigned in the forest.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A low price, especially one under the expected value; chiefly in for a song.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He bought that car for a song.
his [a common soldier's] pay is a song.
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;[…].
gloss: An object of derision; a laughing stock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Related words: canticle
go for a song
Derived words: action song
anisong
answer song
art song
bird song
birdsong
buay song
bush song
campfire song
car crash song
coon song
copy song
cover song
cradle song
deep song
diss song
drinking song
evensong
fight song
folk song
for a song
for a song and a dance
for a song and dance
foresong
heartsong
illustrated song
insert song
intersong
love song
microsong
midsong
minstrel song
multisong
New Song
novelty song
old song
on song
painsong
part-song
part song
patter song
plain song
plain-song
plainsong
playsong
pop song
praise song
presong
pricksong
protest song
radio song
runesong
show song
signature song
singsong
sing-song
sirensong
Siren song
siren song
Siren's song
siren's song
song and dance
song and supper room
songbird
song book
songbook
songburst
songcraft
song-craft
songer
songfest
songfic
songful
songify
songish
songlark
songless
songlet
songlike
songline
songmaker
songmaking
song man
songman
song of India
Song of Solomon
Song of Songs
song of the summer
songsheet
songsmith
songsome
song sparrow
songster
songtext
song thrush
songvid
songwise
songword
songworthy
songwright
songwriter
songwriting
songy
subsong
swan song
swan-song
table song
theme song
torch song
undern-song
undersong
vintage song
wedding song
whalesong
wondersong
work song
world song
worship song
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: slik
lang: Dutch
word: prikkie
lang: Dutch
word: een appel en een ei
lang: Finnish
word: pilkkahinta
lang: Spanish
word: por poco dinero
lang: Spanish
word: de balde
lang: Swedish
word: spottstyver
lang: Telugu
word: చవక
roman: cavaka