serenade

See also: Serenade, sérénade, and sérénadé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French sérénade, from Italian serenata, from the past participle of serenare, from Latin serenare, from serenus (“calm”), of uncertain origin (see there).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛɹəˈneɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

serenade (plural serenades)

1. A love song that is sung directly to one's love interest, especially one performed below the window of a loved one in the evening.
   • 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:

     From me to thee glad serenades, / Dances for thee I propose saluting thee, adornments and feastings for thee, / And the sights of the open landscape and the high-spread sky are fitting, / And life and the fields, and the huge and thoughtful night.

   • 1980, Dire Straits (lyrics and music), “Romeo and Juliet”, in Making Movies:

     A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade / Laying everybody low with a love song that he made

2. (music) An instrumental composition in several movements.

   “Eine kleine Nachtmusik” is a well-known serenade written by Mozart.

Translations

love song

• Breton: nozkan
• Bulgarian: серенада f (serenada)
• Catalan: serenata f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小夜曲 (zh) (xiǎoyèqū)

• Czech: serenáda (cs) f
• Danish: serenade c
• Dutch: serenade (nl) f
• Esperanto: serenado
• Faroese: aftansongur (fo) m
• Finnish: serenadi (fi)
• French: sérénade (fr) f
• Galician: serenata (gl) f
• German: Serenade (de) f
• Hebrew: סֶרֶנָדָה (he) f (serenáda)
• Italian: serenata (it) f
• Japanese: セレナーデ (ja) (serenāde), セレナード (ja) (serenādo), 小夜曲 (しょうやきょく, shōyakyoku, さよきょく, sayokyoku), 夜曲 (ja) (やきょく, yakyoku)
• Korean: 세레나데 (ko) (serenade)
• Macedonian: серена́да f (serenáda)
• Polish: serenada (pl) f
• Portuguese: serenata (pt) f
• Romanian: serenadă (ro) f
• Russian: серена́да (ru) f (serenáda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: серенада f, подокница f

  Roman: serenada (sh) f, podoknica (sh) f

• Spanish: serenata (es) f
• Tagalog: harana
• Thai: เซเรเนด
• Welsh: nosgan f

instrumental composition

• Dutch: serenade (nl) f
• German: Serenade (de) f, Ständchen (de) sg
• Polish: serenada (pl) f

Verb

serenade (third-person singular simple present serenades, present participle serenading, simple past and past participle serenaded)

1. (transitive) To sing or play a serenade for (someone).
   • 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.

Translations

serenade

• Bulgarian: правя серенада (pravja serenada)
• Finnish: esittää serenadi (+ allative)
• French: sérénader (fr)
• Latin: occentō
• Romanian: a cânta o serenadă
• Spanish: dar serenata, serenatear (es)

Further reading

• serenade on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• enseared

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

serenade f (plural serenades)

1. serenade

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sereˈnade]

Noun

serenade f pl

1. plural of serenadă