song

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See also Song, sōng, sǒng, sòng, and sông

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English [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Middle English song, sang, from Old English song, sang (“noise, song, singing, chanting; poetry; a poem to be sung or recited, psalm, lay”), 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 song (“song”), Icelandic söngur (“song”), Ancient Greek ὁμφή (omphḗ, “voice, stevvon”). More at sing.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

song (plural songs)

  1. A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing.
    Thomas listened to his favorite song on the radio yesterday.
    • 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, “The Tutor's Daughter”, in Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion[1], page 266:
      In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
  2. (by extension) any musical composition
  3. Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
    • Milton
      This subject for heroic song.
    • Dryden
      The bard that first adorned our native tongue / Tuned to his British lyre this ancient song.
  4. The act or art of singing.
  5. A melodious sound made by a bird, insect, whale or other animal.
    I love hearing the song of canary birds.
    • Hawthorne
      That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets.
  6. Something that cost only a little; chiefly in for a song.
    He bought that car for a song.
    • Silliman
      The soldier's pay is a song.
  7. An object of derision; a laughing stock.
    • Bible, Job xxx. 9
      And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

Translations [edit]

music with words
the act or art of singing
sound of a bird — see birdsong
sound of another animal
inexpensive deal
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Faroese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse sæing (“bed”), later sæng.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /sɔŋk/

Noun [edit]

song f (genitive singular songar or seingjar , plural seingir or sengur)

  1. bed

Declension [edit]

f11 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative song songin seingir/
sengur		 seingirnar/
sengurnar
Accusative song songina seingir/
sengur		 seingirnar/
sengurnar
Dative song songini seingjum seingjunum
Genitive seingjar/
songar		 seingjarinnar/
songarinnar		 seingja seingjanna

Mandarin [edit]

Romanization [edit]

song

  1. Nonstandard spelling of sōng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of sǒng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of sòng.

Usage notes [edit]

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Nynorsk [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse sǫngr.

Noun [edit]

song m (definite singular songen; indefinite plural songar; definite plural songane)

  1. song
    Kven er det som syng denne songen?
    Who sings this song?

References [edit]

  • “song” in The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

Vietnamese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Sino-Vietnamese, from 雙 ("set of two, pair, couple, both")

Conjunction [edit]

song

  1. both

Determiner [edit]

song

  1. both

Noun [edit]

song

  1. set of two, pair, couple

Prefix [edit]

song

  1. bi-
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